Sun Sports Reserves 4 KB Heating Ambassadors 0              1980/81              Apsley Junior Cup

Sun's double depression for KB

County League Second Division champions Sun Sports Reserves duly completed a fine double on Monday - at the expense of a team who were in line for a trophy treble just a month ago but who eventually finished with just one honour.
While the happy Sun players were celebrating their easy success in the Apsley Junior Cup, KB Heating Ambassadors were left reflecting on what might have been.
Their comprehensive 4-0 defeat by a well balanced Sun outfit followed their disappointing 2-1 defeat in the Junior Challenge Cup final over Easter.
So Ambassadors were left with just the West Herts League's Third Division championship after a season of hard endeavour which promised so much at the start of April.
Sun, runaway winners of their County League section, found the going easy on an overworked Rolls Royce FC pitch which has seen a non stop procession of cup happiness and heartbreak in the last few weeks.
They looked a class above Ambassadors and were value for their win.
In skipper Graham Legg and Mel Robinson they had defenders who realised the importance of cautious, if negative, safety first balls whenever there was the slightest hint of danger; while midfielder Tony Evident, whose footballing education was gained in games of rather a higher standard than this match, was superb in midfield.
Up front, lively youngster Terry Duckett was a constant problem while Barry Smith's pace was always nagging at the minds of the rather square Ambassadors defence.
Ambassadors had little to offer apart from the enthusiasm of Tony Barratt, who started at left back, but pushed further forward as his side slipped further behind, and the patient skills of Roy Langdale.
Mel Robinson, on Darlington's books as a youngster, headed Sun in the lead early on and Smith added the second when he followed up a parried Duckett shot after 32 minutes.
Duckett himself rose beautifully to glance Sun's third from a Robinson free kick after 53 minutes before Smith completed the scoring four minutes from time when he crisply planted the ball home following a build up involving Tony Spicer and substitute John Reeves.

Sun Sports Reserves: Gary Day, Graham Legg, Mel Robinson, Andy Murphy, Tony Spicer, Andy Morton, Tony Evident, Richard Dale, Dave Churchill, Barry Smith, Tony Duckett, Substitute: John Reeves (On for Churchill)