Another brilliant Crusaders win!
Hungerford Town FC’s winning streak, which has seen the Crusaders win all their 2025 matches, continued on Saturday as the team beat Hanwell Town 2:0 in the Southern League, Premier Division South.
With Hungerford Town ranked 7th at the start of play and Hanwell Town 12th, the home team might have felt confident of another victory and, indeed, Hungerford were on top in the early period. But in a fast-paced game from the very start, there was strong opposition from Hanwell.
Hungerford held the lead at half time and a Hungerford penalty early in the second half took the score to 2:0. The Crusaders pressed on and looked likely to score another. But a second yellow card with ten minutes or so to go got a man sent off (plus a yellow card for the bench!) and it took a determined Hungerford, with some excellent defending, to hold out with ten men for the rest of the match.
Hungerford are at home again – this time against Poole Town – on Tuesday 25th February.
Photo by kind permission of Andrew Heard
