Carlton Town 0-1 Kidsgrove Athletic
As the new year entered it’s first day it was a second meeting and a chance for the opposition to avenge their early season defeat. Again as before this would turn out to be a close encounter with very little to choose between either side. Kidsgrove were well organised and disciplined and proved very difficult to break down and with the game only seconds away from a no result would break through the Millers stern resolve and score to take all three points leaving the home faithful disappointed.

Sutton Coldfield Town 1-1 Carlton Town
With only a couple of days from the previous fixture the team travelled to the north side of Birmingham and to opposition that they had also beaten earliar in the season. Again the home side would hold their fort afloat for the first forty-five minutes as Carlton failed to capitalise on their good early work. With the game evenly balanced the home side from their first furore of the new half would open the scoring leaving the Millers stunned and shocked from such an early execution.

This only encouraged Carlton forward and they increased their pressure and intensity on the game to take control of affairs putting the opposition on the back foot for most parts. It would take only another fifteen minutes from going behind for the ever industrious Clarke to score at the far post with a bullet header to even things up. The Millers would finish the game the stronger and more inventive with their play but unfortunately would not put any more digits on the scoreline.

Carlton Town 6-4 Wisbech Town
With a visit next from the lowly placed Wisbech and a club with personal connections from the past in the form of my great uncle Sam Jennings their first professional player/coach came a chance to get back to winning ways. This one was an absolute goal fest and started poorly for Carlton as they would find themselves two goals down after only eighteen minutes gone.
But as we have seen over the season so far the team would stick to their plucky resolve and fight back scoring twice within a minute from a Maddison penalty and an Opoku strike right on the stroke of half-time. The team started the second half brightly and it would take only four minutes more for Blake to add to the tally before further goals later on from Maddison and Blake sandwiched by a reply from the Fenman would take the game beyond the visitors. A final flurry at the end of the game would see the ever patient Darryl Thomas come off the bench and put his name on the scoresheet to complete a good afternoon’s work.

Sheffield 0-3 Carlton Town
An away day next to the oldest football club in existence and a performance that ranked up their as one of the best so far. Carlton pressed the opposition right from the first whistle giving the home side no time whatsoever to settle or enact their game plan. TheMillers played with a great determination producing some nice free-flowing football putting the home side on the defensive for a lot of the first half and would be rewarded twice before the break with a brace from the on fire Blake.

The home side came out for the second half the better but were always up against it and were unable to pull anything back into the game before Maddison put this one to bed from the spot with ten minutes to go.

Carlton Town 2-1 Bingham Town (aet)
Up next was a Senior Cup clash and a potential spanner in the works as the opposition on the night were like an infectious itch that just wouldn’t go away.

This would turn into a real hustle bustle affair with the opposition ruggedly fighting their corner throughout and would prove to be a tough night for all involved. Both teams went in at half-time evenly matched and it would be the visitors that would take the advantage midway through the second half before Blake would hit the net with equaliser soon after to take the game to extra-time. Seven minutes into added time Akaunu would give the Millers the edge and the result in a game where the opposition supporters would choose to throw unfounded and ridiculous racist comments at the Carlton players.

We have no place in the game nor the world for people of this nature and i would hope that the personnel within the football club at Bingham Town deal with the offender harshly as we are all equal whatever race creed or colour. It’s an absolute disgrace that we still have people in our society that seem to think they can go about discriminating against people because they don’t like what they see or because as individuals they aren’t capable of reaching the levels of the people they target.

WE STAND UNITED !!!!
Forthcoming Fixtures:
5th Feb Loughborough Dynamo(h) 745pm
8th feb Wisbech Town(a)
12th Feb Chasetown(h) 745pm
15th Feb Newcastle town(a)
22nd Feb Stamford(h)
29th Feb Spalding(a)
All 3pm kick-off’s unless otherwise stated.