What a fantastic night and feeling, as our good season turned in to an historical one with the hard fought 1 – 0 victory over a good Watton team. Add this to our 3rd place finish in the league, and it’s a season beyond our expectations. The game its self wasn’t a spectacle, a...

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Hempnall Reserves 1 Acle Reserves 2. Hempnall Reserves played at Acle on Bank Holiday Monday morning. With a different team, they suprised everyone with how well they played against a team fighting for promotion. The team fell behind early in the game to two soft goals, which placed them on...

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North Walsham 2 Hempnall 0 Hempnall, writes Ray Youngman, travelled to North Walsham with a different looking team, as keeper Ben Cudden was working, and Martin Addison injured. Mark Whitmore was relegated to the subs bench, allowing Simon Cracknell and Calum Webb to play at the heart of the de...

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Ray Youngman writes. Hempnall 1  Cromer  3 Hempnall, at home to Cromer, can count themselves a little unlucky to lose in a game of fast flowing football from both teams. Hempnall were without Paul Franklin (suspended) and Martin Addison who was playing cricket for Norfolk. Hempnal...

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Mattishall 1 Hempnall 2 Hempnall travelled to Mattishall with Barnes, Solley, Connelly and Sloggitt all watching from the sidelines for various reasons. This gave Jon King his First team debut and Simon Cracknell was drafted in from the Reserves. On a very good surface, Hempnall, despite...

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  Hello again!! A little catch up on the season, and its going well!   Well, it’s been a funny last few weeks, with the weather - games on, then next off!! But, a few weeks ago, on that wet, snowy Saturday, we travelled to Drayton Reserves.   On Friday night, we only...

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Preparations were again disrupted with Ben Lydka finding his way to Acle a month early! He and Frankie are still disputing who was at fault in the communications, but fortunately the Acle chairman was at hand to drive Ben over and we thank him for this kind gesture. Two changes were made to th...

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Mattishall Reserves 2  Hempnall Reserves 1 Hempnall Reserves suffered a shortage of players for this game, and a serious injury to Mike Clarke did nothing to help their cause on the day. Several of the students were unavailable, so the even younger players were brought in. The team didn'...

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  A point gained or two dropped away at Halvergate was the question asked back at base!? In my view not two dropped and if anything it was a point luckily gained, after a first half of Halvergate dominance. Our normal hard running, power game became ineffective as a tough home side more t...

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Hempnall 2  Sheringham 1 Sheringham found their way into the Hempnall "wilderness", confident after their County Cup success the week before. We congratulate them on and wish them well in the final. For our part, our preparations were disrupted, when a late call of meant we only had thi...

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Starting Line Up: S Oakley, J Daniels, B Ling, D Cracknell, M Clarke, D Boyle, B Upton, T Fisher, C Easton, J Patston, O Sayer, Subs S Matos, H Drake, M Oakley After a few changes from our game two weeks ago, Hempnall started with their youngest team of the season so far with, S Oakley...

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Hempnall Reserves 3 Beccles Reserves 3 The Reserves can only blame themselves for not taking all three points from this game, and simply cannot afford to give away goals in the fashion they did in this game. One of the Beccles goals came out of nothing and their third was a little farci...

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Hempnall A Team - The Season So Far With are season now coming down to it's last seven league games, the team keeps getting stronger with every game. We are sitting mid table in the league and pushing for a top 5 finsh, which the mangerment believes is possible, and would be a great start to our...

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North Walsham v Hempnall Hempnall's game at North Walsham was called off due to a wet pitch, and at least it will give Rob Browne and co a little longer to recover from their injuries and knocks they have been struggling with over the past few weeks.This cancellation did give the First ...

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Norfolk Senior Cup Quarter finalHempnall 1 Norwich United 2 AETHempnall, writes Ray Youngman, were a little unfortunate to lose this game. On afine afternoon and in front of a large crowd, during the early stages of the game,the teams were almost equal, both working hard to create openings, althou...

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Hempnall  4   Sprowston Athletic 0 The game, writes Ray Youngman, was in doubt after all the rain during the week, and the local authority groundstaff only deemed the pitch playable at 11am. Still without their injured players, the Hempnall Management team brought Mark W...

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Beccles 1 Hempnall 2Hempnall's injury crisis continues as they lost Barry Allard from last week theyhave now lost their promising young striker Rob Browne, writes Ray Youngman. Hempnall's afternoon started badly when Tom Halliwell called off late, leavingmanagers Clarke and Franklin having to readju...

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Hempnall 4  North Walsham 1 On a cold and very wet afternoon, writes Ray Youngman, where pitch wise perhaps I should have called the game off, but result wise it's a good job I did not. Despite the conditions both teams adapted well and there was a considerable ammount of go...

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Cromer 1 Hempnall 1 Hempnall, writes Ray Youngman, travelled to Cromer on yet another cold and windy afternoon for a 2.30 kick off. Rob Connelly was drafted into the squad for the first time in over a year, whilst Sam Wenham returned from illness. On a very heavy pitch, both teams worked hard,...

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Dersingham 5 Hempnall 1 Hempnall, writes Ray Youngman, after last weeks fine victory against Acle, travelled the long journey to Dersingham on a cold afternoon and came away with nothing. The game started well with both teams working hard but it was Dersingham who took the lead after Hempnall had...

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Hempnall 1 Acle 0 Playing at home to Acle in the Knock Out Cup, Hempnall again had to make some enforced changes due to their extended injury list. This did not prevent the team from playing some of their best football of late. The game again played in front of a good crowd saw a lot of good foot...

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Hempnall 3 Lowestoft Reserves 3 Hempnall, writes Ray Youngman were without skipper Ben Player Steven Barnes and Tony Shipley for their home game with Lowestoft Reserves, in what turned out to be a game full of goals. Hempnall started the stronger of the two sides and took the lead when the Low...

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Hempnall 3 Blofield 4 Hempnall, writes Ray Youngman, made a couple of changes for their home game with Blofield. Ben Player and Steven Barnes returned from injury, and Simon Cracknell was moved to right back. The game started with Blofield in control and early on took the lead while Hempnall wer...

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Norwich Union 2 Hempnall 2 The thirteenth day of the month, writes Ray Youngman, proved to be unlucky for Hempnall as after taking an early lead through some very good early play, they then went on to miss three penalties. After that early advantage, the game fell well below expectations fo...

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Hempnall 6 North Walsham 2 On a fine afternoon, writes Ray Youngman, and in front of a good of a good gathering of supporters Hempnall started their Norfolk Senior Cup game with some very free flowing football and soon went ahead with a goal from close range by Tom Halliwell. With the game co...

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Sheringham 3 Hempnall 2 writes Ray Youngman Hempnall made the long journey to Sheringham full of confidence after some recent good performances but on this day things did not quite go to plan. The game started with Hempnall looking the stronger side and after just twelve minutes, Tom Halliwell gav...

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Lowestoft Reserves 1 Hempnall 2 Hempnall, writes Ray Youngman, went to Lowestoft with a changed team for various reasons, and on the day again did not play to their full potential but managed to secure three more important points and remain on top of the league. The management made team chang...

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U8 Gorleston Rangers 10 Hempnall 2 Hempnall travelled to Gorleston for their first ever league game. The newly formed team faced a baptism of fire against a well-organised Rangers team. Robertson took the task of keeper and performed well with Man of the Match, Stearman solidly defending in front...

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So, the long await for the season to kick off has come and gone, with all still wondering what the season holds, as opening fixtures have seen a mixed set of results across the board. The trouble with early season results is that you never know whether the results obtained are good, bad or ugly, ...

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