Recap

East Palmersville Sports PavilionGreat Lime Road, Killingworth, Killingworth Village, North Tyneside, North of Tyne, England, NE12 9ES, United Kingdom

West Allotment Celtic
East Palmersville Sports Pavilion, Palmersville, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE12 9H
Workington AFC
Borough Park, Workington, Cumbria, CA14 2DT
0 - 7
Final Score
Scott Allison - 1 (18')Steven Rigg - 1 (21')Dav Symington - 2 (35', 88')Reuben Jerome - 1 (42')Greg McCaragher - 1 (64')James Hooper - 1 (70')
Game Statistics
0 Yellow cards 0
0 Red cards 0
0 Corner Kick 0
0 Saves 0
0 Shots on Goal 0
0 Shots 0
0%
Pass Accuracy
0%
Shot Accuracy
OFF
0
F
0
SH
0
0%
Pass Accuracy
0%
Shot Accuracy
0
OFF
0
F
0
SH
Game Timeline
KO
KO
Bobby Carroll
18'
Scott Allison
18'
Dav Symington
21'
Steven Rigg
21'
Dav Symington
35'
Reuben Jerome
42'
Scott Allison
42'
Jordan Palmer
64'
Greg McCaragher
64'
James Hooper
70'
Scott Allison
70'
Dav Symington
88'
FT

Recap

In this first ever meeting between the clubs, Workington equalled their best away result in the FA Cup with the Newcastle outfit suffering their heaviest defeat in thirty appearances in the competition.

The Northern Premier League visitors have fallen to several Northern League clubs in the past but they dominated this encounter from start to finish with a thoroughly professional performance securing a comfortable passage into the next round.

And if the Workington supporters are hoping for a Cup run this year, their team only requires another four victories to reach the First Round proper.

Manager Danny Grainger made several changes to the starting XI, and also tweaked the formation, but was rewarded with a positive performance which produced four goals in the first half and three more in the second.

Celtic did register a few shots on target but couldn’t find a way past Reds’ ‘keeper, Jim Atkinson.

Workington squandered three good chances in the first few minutes, Scott Allison heading wide from a central position and David Symington sending well struck shots over the bar and into the side netting respectively.

But once they took the lead in the eighteenth minute there was never any doubt about the outcome.  Bobby Carroll’s initial shot didn’t have the power or the distance to trouble Dan Gladstone but Allison swivelled and helped the ball find the net.

Three minutes later they doubled the advantage with Symington’s corner met by Steven Rigg who powerfully headed home the second.

Symington got in on the act himself, scoring Workington’s third ten minutes before the interval when a well hit low shot from outside the area appeared to deceive Gladstone.

Their fourth goal came in the forty-second minute and was the end product of a fine four man move culminating in Allison laying on the assist for Reuben Jerome who took his goal with aplomb.

Celtic’s best openings of the half saw a Michael Baxter effort saved by Atkinson and Scott McCarthy looking a certain scorer until a magnificent Ekow Coker tackle averted the danger.

The hosts also wasted the first chance after the restart but substitute Connor Campbell failed to cash in on an intercepted back pass with Atkinson gathering his weak shot comfortably.

Reds’ fifth goal, in the sixty fourth minute had a touch of good fortune about it after Jordan Palmer’s wayward shot hit Greg McCaragher and deflected past the unfortunate Gladstone and into the net.

But the sixth, with twenty minutes to go, matched the passing and movement of Workington’s fourth.  Matty Clarke did the spadework down the left flank with Allison and James Hooper playing a neat one-two before the latter planted the ball into the net.

This prompted a late flurry from the hosts who went in search of a consolation goal but Atkinson saved well to thwart Callum Larmouth and then Campbell before Jack Errington sent another effort wide.

Allison had the chance to bag his second of the afternoon only to blast the ball high over the bar when clean through, but there was a seventh two minutes before the end of normal time.

The ball found its way to the right where the lurking Symington blasted home his second from an acute angle, via a slight deflection.

Reds fell one goal short of a record away win in the FA Cup but the emphatic 7-0 success matched a similar result from ninety years ago!

West Allotment Celtic: Gladstone, Higgins, Devine, Jones, Scott, Errington, Baxter, Kanda, Larmouth, Thompson (Somerville, 66), McCarthy (Campbell, 51).  Substitutes – Lowery-Matondo, Brady, Bates (not used).

Workington: Atkinson, Mahone, Hooper, Wordsworth (McCaragher, 46), Coker, Casson (Clarke, 60), Symington, Carroll, Jerome (Palmer, 60), Allison, Rigg.  Substitutes – Tinnion, Birch, Reilly, Lightfoot (not used). 

Referee: Nick Vincent, Northumberland FA

Crowd: 150

Details

Date Time Season Full Time
20/08/2022 15:00 FA Cup 2022/23 90'

Ground

East Palmersville Sports Pavilion

Great Lime Road, Killingworth, Killingworth Village, North Tyneside, North of Tyne, England, NE12 9ES, United Kingdom

Results

Club1st Half2nd HalfGoals
West Allotment Celtic000
Workington437

West Allotment Celtic

1Dan Gladstone Goalkeeper
2Ryan Higgins Defender
3Harrison Devine Defender
4Shane Jones Midfielder
5Michael Scott Defender
6Jack Errington Defender
7Michael Baxter Midfielder
8Mechack Kanda Forward
9Callum Larmouth Forward
10Mikel Thompson Midfielder
11Scott McCarthy Midfielder
12Lucas Lowey-Matondo
13John Sommerville Forward
14George Brady Forward
15Connor Campbell Forward
16Jason Bates

Workington

1Jim Atkinson Goalkeeper
2Tom Mahone Defender
3James Hooper Midfielder 70'
4Dan Wordsworth Defender
5Ekow Coker Defender
6Ceiran Casson Midfielder
7Dav Symington Midfielder 35', 88'
21'
8Bobby Carroll Midfielder 18'
9Reuben Jerome Forward 42'
10Scott Allison Forward 18'
42', 70'
11Steven Rigg Forward 21'
12Conor Tinnion Midfielder
14Jordan Palmer Forward 64'
15Charlie Birch Defender
16Lewis Reilly Forward
17Liam Lightfoot Defender
18Matty Clarke Defender
19Greg McCaragher Midfielder 64'
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