Southern League Premier South \u2013 Saturday 19th September 2026
\nBasingstoke Town 1 v 1 Gosport Borough Attendance 432
\nWhere: Winklebury Centre, Winklebury Way, Basingstoke. RG23 8BF
\n<\/b>Manager Dan Brownlie\u2019s line-up for our home league game against Gosport Borough was: 1. Simon Grant, 2. Lewis Colwill Casey Bocarro, 4. Alex Solomon, 5. Bernie Tanner, 6. Billy Upton (Capt), 7. Jeremiah Okine-Peters, 8. D\u2019Andre Brown, 9. Miles Obodo, 10. Tom Blake, 17. James Henry, 19. Casey Bocarro
\nOn the bench: 20. Lucas Welch, 11. Christos Papkonstantinou, 12. Jonathan Gjoshe, 16. Sulayman Ceesay
\nReferee \u2013 Catalin Tanase<\/p>\n
With the over cast sky above, this rearranged league fixture got underway, and it was the visitors who took an early lead, after an error at the back, gave Gosport a corner. From the corner, a miss-hit clearance allowed the ball to fall to a Gosport player, who drove the ball into the bottom corner of the net. Basingstoke Town 0-1 Gosport Borough<\/p>\n
Gosport continued to be the team on top, as a number of passes went astray by Stoke players.
\nThe referee made his first of numerous strange decisions, as Okine-Peters seemed to get dragged down inside the penalty area, but was waived away much to the shock of the Stoke management team.
\nWe hit the twenty-minute mark, with Gosport pushing for a second, but that final pass was fortunately missing.<\/p>\n
Just before the half-hour, a shot from range from Alex Solomon beat the dive of Gosport\u2019s keeper, but bounces off the post and seconds later, the follow-up shot his blocked away close from goal.
\nBilly Upton\u2019s header a minute later from a corner, forced a great save from the Gosport keeper, who pushed the all over the bar.
\nAnother Stoke attack saw a blocked shot fall to Solomon who smashed his shot a foot over the bar.<\/p>\n
More questionable calls from the referee, gave Gosport some momentum, but fortunately a header and then a shot flew wide of Stoke\u2019s left-hand post.<\/p>\n
Stoke were to have the final chance of the half, as a shot from Okine-Peters was saved down low, followed by James Henry\u2019s shot was blocked away.
\nAfter three minutes of added-time, we went into the break trailing.<\/p>\n
Halftime Score: Basingstoke Town 0 vs 1 Gosport Borough
\n<\/b>Stoke came out the second-half with more purpose, but that final pass was still missing as the referee was starting to frustrate both sets of players, let alone the crowd, with his decisions.<\/p>\n
On 56 minutes, Gosport should have doubled their lead, as a lazy pass, allowed Gosport to break, and a seconds later Simon Grant was forced to make a save down low, pushing it out for a corner.<\/p>\n
Grant made another save as a through ball saw the lively Gosport No.20 fail to beat Grant from ten yards out, who palmed the ball away.<\/p>\n
Penalty was the cries from the Stoke fans behind the goal, as Okine-Peters neatly beat his marker taking the ball along the by-line, only to be taken out by a rash Gosport challenge, as the referee somehow allowed play-on.<\/p>\n
Obodo continued to cause the Gosport backline problems, with his pace and touch, but his shot was met by a last-ditch block out for a corner.
\nIn between Stoke\u2019s mounting number of attacks, Gosport should have doubled their lead, but their striker somehow slid his shot wide of the left-hand post from six yards.<\/p>\n
Stoke were forced into their first change, as Miles Obodo had picked up a knock, and was replaced by Christos Papkonstantinou (70 mins).<\/p>\n
Wave after wave of Stoke attacks were arriving, as Upton won the ball in his half, then took it thirty yards, then slid the ball inch perfectly to Okine-Peters whose powerful shot was met by a diving save by the Gosport keeper. A minute later Stoke cold have levelled, but Henry\u2019s shot flew wide from D\u2019Andre Browns\u2019s neat control and pass.
\nOkine-Peters had the next chance but his header from Colwill was poor, and flew over the bar.<\/p>\n
Now inside the final ten minutes, fans were starting to wonder if that equaliser was ever going to arrive, but it did as Colwill\u2019s cross picked out Okine-Peters whose low header found the corner of the net. GOAL! Basingstoke Town 1<\/b> \u2013 1 Gosport Borough (Okine-Peters 84 mins)
\n<\/b>
\nA quiet few final minutes saw, Casey Bocarro go in the book, then Grant received a stray boot to the body, followed by a yellow for Lewis Colwill.
\nIn the first of six added-minutes, the referee, gave Gosport\u2019s Chris Zebroski, a second yellow card and he was off.
\nDespite Gosport players looking dead on their feet, they were able to prevent Stoke from adding a second, and both teams had to settle for a point.<\/p>\n
Fulltime Score: Basingstoke Town 1 vs 1 Gosport Borough
\n<\/b>Okine-Peters 84 mins,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Wiltshire 6 mins,<\/p>\n
Match Thought\u2019s
\n<\/b>I bet a few eyebrows were raised, when our Management team, saw who had been designated today\u2019s game, and he certainly did not let us down, but Will leave that there!
\nA pretty average first-half from Stoke, saw us once more dominate a second-half, and good chances were probably in double figures, and Jeremiah Okine-Peters will be happy he finally got his first league goal of the season. Think we deserved all three points, despite Gosport having one or two chances. Let\u2019s hope Miles Obodo\u2019s injury is not serious.
\nUp Next:
\n<\/b>We shift away from the league, and to the FA Trophy, as we travel to our friends Poole Town next Saturday 26th<\/p>\n
Match Report by Martin French..<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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