14th October 2007 - Division 2
Sheppey FC 8-1 Alpine
Sheppey opened a two point gap at the top of Division 2 with a comfortable win over Alpine, their fourth league win in a row. After a poor opening to the game in which the visitors were perhaps on top, Sheppey started to knock the ball around well and began picking holes in a nervy rearguard which had conceded 42 goals in its opening 3 games. The deadlock was broken on the quarter hour mark when Staniforth raced onto a through ball from Morris to coolly slot the ball past the onrushing keeper. Six minutes later Reynolds played in Chipchase, the latter sliding the ball past the despairing dive of the keeper. Chipchase then grabbed his second two minutes later, heading home a pinpoint cross from Morris. He then completed a six minute hat-trick when he fired home from Staniforth's pass. The visitors defence was now all over the place and Staniforth grabbed his second and Sheppey's fifth on the half hour, slotting home after good work from Reynolds and Dunhill. Sheppey's sixth goal arrived a minute before the interval, Reynolds long raking pass sent Morris away in the inside right channel where he cheekily lifted the ball over the oncoming keeper into the empty net.
HT 6-0
As has become the norm in recent weeks, Sheppey started the second half slowly and Wright's first action of the match was to pick the ball out of his net. The visitors continued to enjoy more possession than in the first half but never really threatened to add another goal and, despite taking their
