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Goals Galore

Charlie Bright14 Jan 2020 - 09:59
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Historian David Barber looks back at some hefty scorelines from years gone by, including our very own 12-0 win.

So what's the biggest score you've seen in a football match? If your matches are only in the Premier League or Football League, you could feasibly go for years without even seeing a six. But at the more modest levels of the game, of course, you could go much higher.

We think that Redhill's biggest is probably our 12-0 win away to Epsom Athletic in a Combined Counties League Division One fixture on 12 April 2017. It was a Wednesday evening match at Chessington & Hook United's ground, where Epsom were sharing, and I was privileged to be there. (I still have the programme.) My impressions now are that the Reds could have scored a lot more than twelve - with Kieran Campbell, Kery Kedze and Gary Abisogun charging through the home defence at will - but that the Athletic kept fighting to the end to keep the score down and certainly never gave up.

The Reds' three points that evening took us up to second place in the table and we were eventually promoted into the Premier Division. Whipping boys Epsom were then languishing at the bottom with a goal difference of minus 133 and ended up dropping out of the league altogether.

Personally, my biggest score in any match is 21-0, which I saw on the Sunday before the Christmas just gone in a London Football League fixture between Kensal Town and RFC at Paddington Recreation Ground. Kensal were 8-0 up at half-time, notched six goals in the last ten minutes and even had a penalty saved by one of the three 'keepers used by the hapless RFC.

I also saw two 20-0 scorelines nearly twenty years ago - Fulham Ladies v Charlton at Motspur Park and the Isle of Wight v Sark in the Island Games on Guernsey. At the top level of the game I was at Stamford Bridge in 1971 when Chelsea beat Jeunesse Hautcharage from Luxembourg 13-0 in the European Cup Winners' Cup, Peter Osgood netting five of them as he had predicted he would.

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