The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
Cuckoos boss sure his side will avoid a relegation dogfight
Football - Peterborough Sports are back on top
Yaxley boss Andy Furnell insists his side won’t be dragged into a relegation scrap in Division One Central of the Evo Stik Southern League.
The Cuckoos were beaten 2-1 at home by next-to-bottom Kidlington last weekend. They are now just six points clear of the drop zone with eight games to play ahead of a trip to mid-table Sutton Coldfield on Saturday.
But Furnell is confident the club’s aim of survival in the first step four season in the club’s history will be achieved.
“I’m not worried at all,” Furnell stated. “We still have a healthy gap between us and the bottom two and we have teams who are in and around us to play.
“Our aim at the start of the season was t0 finish 18th and get ready for next season armed with enough knowledge to make us more competitive.
“We can play better than we have. We can do better on and off the field, but consid- ering the small squad we have and the fact that we insist on living within our means we have done well enough.
“It was a disappointing defeat last weekend, but it was a freak result. We missed numerous chances to score and they scored twice after the ball had stayed in play by hitting our corner flag.
“Last season in the United Counties League we would have scored 300 goals if we’d taken all our chances, but misses at this higher level are more crucial.”
Yaxley welcome back influential skipper Ross Watson at Sutton Coldfield after a sixweek absence with a calf injury.
Peterborough Sports moved back to the top of the table following a comfortable 3-0 win over Kempston Harriers at the Bee Arena, but they were denied the chance to move further clear when their Tuesday game at Thame United fell victim to the weather.
Sports have a tough game at fourth-placed Didcot United this Saturday.
Top scorer Mark Jones, Dion Sembie-Ferris and an own goal secured victory over Kempston.