Saturday, 24 December 2022

Sands United 0 SE Dons 7

Match 54/22/2061 - Friday, 23rd December 2022 - Friendly

Sands United (0) 0
SE Dons (3) 7
Headcount: 105

Admission: Free
Programme: None
Mileage: 38/3,926

Best part of a fortnight without a game and this friendly at Tonbridge with two clubs with an interesting back story was tempting.

Sands United are a club that is set up for fathers and other bereaved family members who have lost a child to come together through a shared love of football. The team also commemorate their babies' all too brief lives by proudly displaying their names on the kit worn for every match.

SE Dons are a Sunday League team that have become a YouTube sensation boasting thousands of supporters worldwide and regularly drawing four figure crowds to their matches in the Orpington and Bromley Sunday League. The club has ex-Southend striker Andy Ansah as their chairman and his son Zak is a team member.

Sands held out well in the first half with just a 13th minute goal conceded but two goals just prior to the break gave SE Dons a comfortable half-time lead.

Two goals in a mminute on the hour mark made is 5-0 for the south Londoners and two penalties took the score to 7-0.

The result was far less important than the cause.

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