We travelled to Abbey full of belief after throwing away a 2 goal lead in the reverse fixture earlier in the season but that belief soon turned to amazement as the Bec failed to put together a performance fit for this club.

With Charlie Hill(minutes) and Ashley Allingham(work) dropping to the ressies there was a place on the bench for James Kershaw and a return for Martin Allison.

The team talk was based around Abbey's danger from set-pieces and the first 10 minutes went to plan as Abbey seemed slow out of the blocks(maybe due to a few shaky results of late) and within a minute or 2 a penalty appeal was waved away when the ball appeared to hit the Abbey player flush on the arm. Nathan Gilbert had the Bec's best chance but blazed over when he should have scored.

Despite pushing Abbey onto the back foot they were a danger themselves as the Bec were poor at picking up men when we didn't have the ball and this theme continued all match. Abbey then took the lead against the run of play when a set-piece was only half cleared and a shot from outside the box fell kindly to an Abbey player instead of flying out of play and he coolly slotted home. 1-0.

Schoolboy defending from the Bec as he was left totally unmarked 8 yards from goal and this type of defending continued time and time again at set-pieces until Abbey scored a second midway through the half when an excellent delivery was headed home from 6 yards out. 2-0.

If it hadn't sunk in by now a 3rd on the stroke of halftime from a corner put Abbey firmly in the driving seat despite Bec chances going begging at the other end. 3-0. Gilbert has been excellent for us this season so it was a surprise when he was guilty of another huge miss while skipper Woodward ballooned an effort over with only the keeper to beat.

Kershaw replaced Lewis at halftime and a shell shocked Bec looked to re-group. Unfortunately within minutes of the re-start it was 4-0 when a speculative effort from 25-30 yards eluded Tom Pillbeam in the Bec goal.

Although Tom would have wanted to have done better the midfield were once again guilty of switching off and moaning to the ref instead of getting on with the game and in this case closing down a player about to score! 4-0.

The back line looked a lot more assured second half and we created chances again and Pani Oritis finally got us the score sheet just after the hour but despite another clear penalty shout the Bec lacked the quality to create enough clear openings to look like getting back into the game as it petered out amidst some more moaning from certain Bec players.

Well done to Abbey, excellent hosts and good bunch of lads. Unfortunately we didn't turn up today with the exception of the skipper Woodward who won the midfield battle but he will need better support at both ends of the pitch next week against Horsley.