South made the lengthy journey to rivals Cambridge City knowing that a win would leave them six points clear of third place and almost certainly still in their rightful place on top of the league.

However, despite the captain's usual pre-match calls for South to play hard from the start and to dominate the early play, it was Cambridge City who came out looking the more eager for a goal, putting the South backline under a great deal of pressure. This sound familiar?

City, who enjoyed the greater percentage of possession and chances on goal, eventually went ahead fifteen minutes in when a short corner which was well saved by keeper, Parker, fell to a City player who bundled the ball over the line and into the back of the goal. Not the start South had been looking for. Still quite familiar.

But as has happened regularly this season, going behind seemed to kick-start South and they slowly wrested control of the game away from City.

The equalising goal came through a combination of close ball control and quality stick skills from Chris Graveling and calm finishing from El Capitano Baker. In a rapid move down the right, Graveling showed incredible close skills to receive and control the ball amidst a sea of converging City players before slipping it square to Baker who, given time and space, calmly placed the ball into the corner of the goal.

This seemed to spark a two minute period of complaint, as the City players questioned the validity of the goal which neither umpire saw anything wrong with.

With the game all square, City won a free hit inside South's twenty-five. With Benedikz desperate (you can’t possibly know how desperate) to break his duck for the season [Ed – guess who earned himself the right to write this match report by criticising previous efforts?], the shot was drilled into the D and, deflecting off his stick, sent Steve Parker the wrong way. A classy own-goal? Fortunately not as the shot had been from outside the area.

South's attacking business was not finished in this half and they managed to take a, probably undeserved, lead into the break as they forced a short corner on the halftime whistle, which was duly converted by Cheggers who drilled the ball into the bottom of the net via the occasional deflection off two City sticks.

South came out in the second half as they had wanted to in the first. They dominated both possession and chances, but unfortunately found goals were particularly hard to come by.

Super striker Forrest, discovering he had solved his recent problems with rounding keepers, left the city keeper sprawled behind him on two occasions only to be thwarted once by a good tackle and once by an extremely badly placed post, from which he recovered the ball and from an acute angle fired off a second shot which flashed across the face of the City goal.

South pushed back City and probed down both sides looking for the elusive killer third goal. With Tom Moy and Matt Murray on the left and Stu Creed and the ever present Keith Rowland on the right, South searched for openings through the City defence. If one wasn’t forth coming then the ball was rapidly spread to the other wing, pulling City out of shape and creating opportunities.

As the half wore on legs on both sides tired and the game became more open and end-to-end as both teams continued to search for a goal. Lukas Snetler in particular catching the eye several times breaking through City lines and only being stopped by good last-ditch tackles.

City continued to look for an equaliser but, with time running out, they found themselves constantly thwarted by Messrs Hay and Benedikz down the wings and by Jim Thorpe and Matt Readman who were in imperious form in the centre.

As the final whistle went and South completed the double over City for the season, they successfully showed that they could score against even the meanest defence and repel the most potent attacks this league has to offer.