Tanners 0 - 2 Bowers & Pitsea

If symptoms of the Omicron Variant are a sense of abject defeat and depression then about 300 Leatherhead residents will need to go into isolation.  Today was horrible.  Again.

It didn't start to badly but when Bentley and Carrington limped off injured any threat we had disappeared and we would be lucky to come out with a 0-0 draw.

This hope was soon dashed when we conceded our 197th penalty of the season to go 1-0 down.  Not long after it was 2-0 and some supporters were already heading to the train station.

Plan C may mean Leatherhead's next few games could be called off...  as Leatherhead are already on Plan F this should come as welcome relief.

Bowers & Pitsea are coming!

The fourth of four must-win games comes around just before Christmas.  The shuffling of the Boxing Day action means we do not face Ks until the New Year so it would be great to get back to back wins before settling down to the turkey.

While Bowers & Pitsea sit higher up the table, they are just one of a couple of teams that have scored less than us.

Kick off at 3pm.  See you there! 

Potters Bar 3 - 4 Tanners

For any side to come back from 3-1 down to win 4-3 it would be a good result but when you are bottom of the table it is massive.

It looked all too familiar with Leatherhead conceding an early goal and despite pulling one back we soon found ourselves 3-1 down.  We needed a miracle.

If there is one thing more precise than Matt Bentley's finishing and that is his paperwork.  Since the expertly-filled forms were sent to the league he has scored 4 goals in 4 games, with the two coming in this vital game.  His last minute winner caused wild scenes not seen before this year.

Alex Sami returned to the team and found the back of the net for our third goal and having another scorer to hand will come in very handy with the visit of Bowers & Pitsea next Saturday...

Travelling Tanners

This is the third of four must win games with a trip to Potters Bar Town; wins so far in this series? None.

A new start, with Julien solely in charge and a more settled side.

Kick off at 3pm.  Good luck fellas.

Spineless 0 - 2 Brightlingsea Regent

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone;prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone; silence the pianos and with muffled drum; bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.  Leatherhead's season is over.

There is not a single positive from today's game.  A game where there was talk of attacking from the whistle we offered nothing.  Lacklustre on the pitch and silent on the bench.

We could have had a penalty early on but that was as good as it got in terms of chances.  A shout for a penalty.  A team that tore into Carshalton couldn't muster one attack of note.

Meanwhile our goal difference declines further as we allow them to score twice; a goal in each half.  I was watching the game when they scored first but somehow missed it, so innocuous was their attack.  I wished I wasn't watching when the second went in.

To make matters worse, the results elsewhere go against us to top off a terrible day.

Brightlingsea Regent are coming!

Two sides that have conceded 95 goals between them battle it out today in this relegation battle.

Leatherhead's performance at Carshalton where we scored three goals against one of the toughest defences in the league give us hope going into this game.

Ian Holloway arrives to bring light relief to calm the nerves from 1pm.

Kick off at 3pm.  See you there!

Walton & Hersham 2 - 1 Tanners

As with last year, we crash out to lower opposition on a disappointing night.  The performance against Carshalton gave us real hope we could repeat the display tonight but enforced changes meant it was a very different side.

Leatherhead set themselves out playing short balls from the back and stuck to the game plan even into the dying minutes where something more direct might have got us a goal.

Set pieces were our downfall.  An early freekick sailed straight in and not soon after another one found a home player to tap it home.  We spent the rest of the second half looking second best.

I then had one of the worst Boardroom experiences of my life with cold tea arriving late.  My complaints fell on deaf ears when I returned behind the goal to rejoin the Tanners faithful.

Second half we did pick it up.  Matt Bentley looks like one hell of a player and he led the line with the few chances that we had.  He finally found the back of the net with a smart finish but it was not enough.

Leatherhead can moan about the officials but there wasn't enough on show to believe we were robbed in any way.

Out of the cup but the game was always going to be played in the shadow of Saturday.  A home game where so much is riding on...