Cambridge South 3rds, sponsored by PwC, were able to field 11 players all in their normal positions for the first time this season...and it showed. The away team dominated from the start, and Steve Fleck, having arrived just in time for the push back, netted a quick fire hattrick inside 20 minutes. The first was from a James Pope free hit, which Fleck pounced on, swiftly followed by a mesmerising solo run from the half way line ending with a neat shimmy past the keeper. The third was relatively tame, as James Pope laid the ball off for Fleck to blast in.

Skipper John Greaves got in on the act soon after when a Paul South hit into the D found him lurking with intent 3 yards out to slide the ball calmly past a wrongfooted keeper.

Shortly after half time James Pope turned from assist-master into scorer when a thunderbolt effort from a short corner proved unstoppable. By this stage CSouth were well on top, with everyone playing their part, from the solid, watertight GloverEvansLee defence, through a classy CreedDikstraPopeFleckSouth midfield to the lively GreavesLewis attack. Even the guest star keeper Tim Poole, enticed out of retirement, did his bit, particularly when his teammates went through a brief period of concentration lapse, diving at the feet of attackers as if he had never been away. John Greaves scored the final goal as he delicately deflected a Stuart Creed effort which was going wide into the net from his (relatively) safe range of 6 inches.

St Neots were not a bad team, and never gave up. On this occasion they came up short against 11 CSouth players all playing well, as a team. The CSHC 3rds promotion push is maintained.