There can be no complaints – the Canaries were brought to earth by some effective marauding by the Crows in what was a fine match at Top Field. Mind you, I lay the blame on Sky Sports, whose camera crew had interviewed Hitchin chairman Terry Barratt before the game – in a feature about how…
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First of all the winner of this drawn game was football. It was a puslsating match full of incident and dramatic moments, tactically intriguing and contested in the right manner. One could argue that Hitchin snatched a draw from the jaws of victory, but as it was they grabbed a late but thoroughly deserved equaliser….
A tight encounter was envisaged against the Marketmen tonight, and so it proved to be, with the opening goal coming from a set piece. But there was a lack of Suffolk punch in the second half and ultimately this was a comfortable win which means the victorious hosts can add the Prize Money to the…
This was the first League match at Top Field since March and was certainly one worth waiting for since it served to eradicate the negative feelings many of us had when, early last season, The Church saw off Hitchin by almost the same score today, but lost the return to the Canaries. Skipper Dan Webb…
The pre-season schedule is now complete and, remarkably, Hitchin won all eight games with a score aggregate of thirty-two goals for and three against. This final game against former rivals Barnet, was one that many of us conceded would be the toughest test and one that Barnet would probably win. But the National League club…
In the penultimate pre-season friendly a very experimental Hitchin team overwhelmed county neighbours Harpenden Town who play in the Spartan League Premier division. It was indeed welcome to see the first football at Top Field since March and gratifying to see the many improvements made by the ground staff and volunteers – the pitch, needless…
This was indeed a curious match, since although Hitchin trailed by an early penalty goal, a snatched point was always a distinct possibility, despite being reduced to ten men with the dismissal of Lewis Barker, but a well taken late goal for the visitors put the result beyond doubt and Peterborough Sports go top of…
A point is a point and for both teams it turned out to be a hard earned one, where potency up front was underlined by prolificacy – and the same result as the one at Banbury earlier in the season when the Puritans were briefly in the top spot. That encounter was memorable for the…
In an open, entertaining game, Hitchin secured a second successive league win and against a team that had humiliated them with a five-nil thumping back in August, which still remains the heaviest defeat of the season. On Tuesday the Canaries notched up their best win of the season in the away match against the jaded…