Rammy find seven’s far from heaven
EVO-STIK FIRST DIVISION NORTH FARSLEY CELTIC ........ 7 RAMSBOTTOM ............ 0 SHELDAN KEAY RAMSBOTTOM United were smashed 7-0 by Farsley Celtic at the Harry Williams Riverside Stadium on Tuesday.
Both James Walshaw and Lewis Nightingale bagged hat-tricks for the visitors with Richard Marshall netting the other, as the Rams suffered their biggest defeat of the season.
It left Ramsbottom in 10th place in the Evo-Stik First Division North table, though they have games in hand on some of the teams above them.
Farsley were in control from the offset, and both Walshaw and Nightingale had gone close in the opening stages.
It was Nightingale who then opened the scoring on 19 minutes when he and Walshaw played a good one-two through the Ramsbottom defence, before the winger fired home to make it 1-0.
Nightingale then netted his second two minutes later as he found the bottom corner with an accurate left-footed effort from the edge of the box.
Things went from bad to worse for Ramsbottom on 38 minutes when Farsley got their third goal of the evening.
Walshaw was the man to get it on this occasion as he turned and fired into the bottom corner of the goal, giving Ramsbottom ●● goalkeeper Martin Fearon no chance.
Farsley carried that 3-0 lead into the second half, and they soon rubbed salt into the Ramsbottom wounds as the league’s top scorer Walshaw grabbed his second when he finished off a well-worked move to put Farsley 4-0 up right after the restart.
The prolific scorer is set to miss the next few games through suspension after a red card at Hyde, but that didn’t stop him running riot against Ramsbottom, as he completed a 16-minute hat-trick when he fired into the bottom corner from the edge of the area. It was his 44th goal in all competitions this season and a fifth hat-trick of the campaign for Farsley.
Ramsbottom had failed to create any clear-cut chances up to that point, but one did come just after the hour mark when Darhyll Mason fired a dangerous effort at the visitors’ goal, but it was well kept out by opposition goalkeeper Graeme McKibbin.
The one-way Farsley traffic then resumed when Marshall made it 6-0 on 73 minutes, rolling the ball into the corner after it had been squared in from the right.
The rout was completed on 79 minutes as Nightingale secured his first hat-trick of the season by slotting home after a good move to make it 7-0.