Week ending 19th October by Andrew Grout

In the Jelson Homes Senior Cup first round, Ellistown FC rocked up at their big brother Coalville Town on Tuesday night, who dropped down to Step 6 over the summer, with nothing to lose and a point to prove following a heavy home defeat last time out. A change in formation worked a treat for the first 15 minutes as they bossed the game against a quality team from the league above, and they could have scored in the second minute as Omah Bandeh headed wide from a corner. The game changed on 16 mins when Michael Hills went for a loose ball and made a great old-fashioned sliding tackle, which unfortunately made contact with the Coalville player and resulted in a straight red for the Ellistown player. Ellistown went into survival mode and it was up to Coalville to break them down, which they eventually did on the stroke of half-time, Finn Thomas getting on the scoresheet.

Not surprisingly the 2nd half followed the 1st with Ellistown happy to soak up the pressure and it took until the 62nd minute for Coalville when Kian Taylor converted from the penalty spot, and the cherry on the top came on 77 minutes when Billy Bowes scored to make it 3-0 to Coalville, who booked a place in the second round.

It was also third time lucky for Ingles at Homestead Road, who welcomed LSL side AFC North Kilworth. NK looked like they might surprise Ingles in the first half, but were undone by two goals in 2 minutes in the second half, one from the spot, Jack Allen and Kyle Fowkes scoring in a 2-0 win for Ingles, who take on Hathern in the next round.

One Tuesday night game in Everards Brewery Division One, which blew open Div1 table, as Loughborough Students Development suffered their first-ever Senior League defeat, as they lost 3-2 at Lutterworth Athletic Reserves. James Thew scored twice for the students before the break, but Alex Rhodes in the first half for Lutterworth got them in it, Charlie Jones popped up with an equaliser five minutes after half-time, before Barnes Gladman scored the winner deep into injury time, Lutterworth taking over at the top of the table.