DRONFIELD TOWN 2 V 2 NUNEATON TOWN UNITED COUNTIES LEAGUE CUP 4th OCTOBER 2025

 

6th game of the season and its October, back from Sicily  yesterday and  today  it certainly feels like autumn has started. Dronfield town  is situated maybe half a mile from the train station down on the main road that runs through dronfield, maybe a mile or so away from  Sheffield FC, the entrance is down a small cul-de-sac  just off Shireoaks road there's a fairly big car park which at times can get quite full if early and late in the season there is a cricket match on the  pitches at  side, as its a residential  area the club advise visitors to park in the car park or further up on the main road, "Don't block residents driveways!" as you enter the ground directly in front of you is the clubhouse with a bar, toilets and a snack bar, you then go down a path to the pitch which has a small seated stand to the right, you can stand behind the goals but the far side is not accessible.

Storm Amy had been swirling around the previous day and with heavy rain  during the night and morning the pitch looked in good condition  however come kick off time there it was very windy and drizzly rain at times turning to heavy rain, within a couple of minutes of kick off dronfield earned a free kick which came back to them with dronfield firing a shot back in that deflected off a nuneaton player to give town a shock early lead. town then had to defend pretty well as nuneaton finally woke up and came out at them coming close a couple of times  but a good strong dronfield defence kept them out, just before half time the nuneaton keeper took a stray boot to the head as he came to collect a stray header, receiving a deep cut that needed bandages. HT 1-0 to Dronfield.

2nd half and again nuneaton looked for an equaliser that finally came with 20 minutes to  and game on, with 5 minutes to go it looked like nuneaton had sealed the win  with a curling cross that was met with a perfect header  giving them a 2-1 lead, Dronfield  threw everyone forward including the keeper on the 90th minute for a corner that curled in over everyones heads, the ball came back across and the Dronfield keeper put it away for 2-2! with the game going to a penality shoot out  nuneaton hit 4 out of 4 and with town missing a penalty nuneaton completed a perfect 5 out of 5 with the game ending 5-3 to nuneaton town.