Competition: MFL Premier

Dudley Town vs Tividale

Midland Football League
Premier Division
Tuesday 13th February 2024
Dudley Town 1-0 Tividale

No action, no points

This game never really got started and in the end another defeat and a disappointing show on the back of the fine result and performance last time out.

From 10 days ago, manager Stuart Howe made just the one change. In came Callum Gillies for the unavailable Kamol Campbell and it was the 26th minute before the first decent piece of goalmouth action when after a bit of pinball in the area, somehow Tividale scrambled away a Dudley corner. On 29 minutes Jordan Davies benefited from a favourable bounce but could only smack the ball straight into the midrift of Tividale keeper Louis Connor.

A minute later and Dudley broke the deadlock. Harry Crook played the ball across the 6 yard box and after Tividale again failed to clear, Abdul Bashiru tapped the ball home. Somehow Dudley missed a fine chance on 40 minutes to make it 2-0 when somehow the ball was put over the bar with only the keeper to beat. The remainder of the half petered out with neither side creating anything decent chances wide.

Half Time:- Dudley Town 1-0 Tividale

The second period was about as eventful as the first and Crook had a shot deflected wide of the Tividale goal on 47 minutes. On 62 minutes substitute Cody Mullan had Tividale’s first decent effort when he fired just wide.

With 2 minutes of the regulation 90 to go Dominic Dell’s shot appeared to half the crowd, to have given Tividale an equaliser. That was until Dudley keeper Alex Graham went behind the goal to retrieve the ball. Apart from those two Tividale attempts it always looked as though Dudley would get the second goal and Crooks had two decent chances to put the game to bed but failed on both accounts.

In the end the one goal was enough in a game that never rose above tepid and again Tividale were the architects of their own downfall.

Full Time:- Dudley Town 1-0 Tividale

Tividale:- 1. Louis Connor, 2. Zac Kourouyianni, 4. Jakob Burroughs. 5. Joe Hawkins 6. Lewis Wright, 7. Ryan Snape, 8. Jack Till, 9. Dominic Dell (17 Ewan Edwards 63), 10. James Douglas, 11. Malcolm Melvin (16. Max Morris 46), 12. Kamol Campbell (3. Callum Gillies 46)

Unused Sub:- 14. Jamie Oliver

Tividale

1	Private: Louis Connor Goalkeeper
2	Private: Zacharias Kourouyianni Defender
3	Private: Callum Gillies Defender
4	Private: Jakob Burroughs 16 Midfielder
5	Private: Joe Hawkins Defender
8	Private: Jack Till Forward
9	Private: Dominic Dell Forward
10	Private: James Douglas Midfielder
11	Private: Lewis Wright 19 Defender
20	Private: Ryan Snape 14 Midfielder
22	Private: Malcolm Melvin 6 Midfielder
6	Private: Joseph Burroughs 22 Defender
14	Private: Cody Mullan 20 Midfielder
16	Private: Max Morris 4 Midfielder
19	Private: Lewis Taylor-Boyce 11 Forward

Dudley Town

Tividale

Congleton Town vs Tividale

Midland Football League
Premier Division
Saturday 3rd February 2024
Congleton Town 3-3 Tividale

Pride and Passion

If there has been one thing lacking this season with this set of lads, it is consistency. So, after the tremendous performance on Tuesday night, no one really knew what to expect away at table toppers Congleton Town.

So, to be three nil down after 30 minutes with the home side rampant. It did not bode well for the rest of the afternoon. But there is an old saying that “football is a funny old game” and nothing can surprise you.

Boss Stuart How made three changes from the midweek starting eleven. Max Morris, Ewan Edwards dropping to the bench and Joe Burroughs was unavailable due to work commitment. In came Ryan Snape, Malcolm Melvin, and Lewis Wright

Congleton in front of an amazing 700 plus fans at this level of football were at the visitors from the kick off and were appealing for a hand ball and penalty within two minutes but the referee waived play on. They had their first chance on goal after three minutes when a Brian Barton shot was well held by Louis Connor although the forward looked to be offside.

Tividale’s Jack Till’s snap shot just drifted wide after 8 minutes as they tried to relieve some of the pressure, but the home side just kept on coming and a minute later they opened the scoring. A long ball over the top and Connor does well to force Barton wide, but he pulls it back into the danger area, and after a little scramble in the box Peter Williams hits it in the far corner. Two minutes later and it is 2-0. The ball played out to Max McCarthy and his low driven shot found the bottom left hand corner.

On 14 minutes McCarthy reaches a long ball into the corner skips past the defender and whips a ball into the Barton at the back post who looked to get a touch to it but couldn’t hit the target. On 20 minutes Ethan Hartshorn had a rising effort from.25 yards that just cleared the Tividale bar. But they did not have to wait long for the third. In the 30th minute Tividale lose the ball on the halfway line and three passes later, George Sankey is there to finish off the move and stroke the ball into the back of the net.

Completely against the run of play on 33 minutes, Snape latches onto a forward pass, skips past his marker and shoots past Congleton keeper Daniel Parton and into the back of the net. A minute later and it was 3-2 through Snape again, as he gets on the end of a through ball that catches the home side asleep, and he fires the ball past the advancing Parton in goal.

After being battered for 30 minutes> Somehow Tividale are still in the game, and you can bet the team talk in both dressing rooms are a lot different to what they were 15 minutes ago.

Half Time:- Congleton Town 3-2 Tividale

With their new found confidence it was Tividale who started the half the better and from their first corner of the game on 57 minutes threatened but Town cleared. In the 58th minute Williams slides a pass into the box to Needham who whips a ball in, and Barton shoots and Connor collects. At the other end Tividale are looking for an equaliser and from a free kick Ewan Edwards puts the ball over the bar at the back post. Edwards then drives down the right and his cross is flicked on at the near post and put over by Till.

The game was now literally end to end as both sides looked to the all-important next goal. On 73 minutes a chance by Needham gives Congleton another corner as his shot takes a deflection. Then on 78 minutes a Hampton header comes off the cross bar. On 81 minutes substitute Max Morris throws himself and blocks a goal bound shot.

Connor then pulled off a brilliant save denying a Congleton effort when another cross from the right was met with a near post header and he pushed it onto the crossbar and over from point blank.

The save was doubly important 5 minutes later when a cross into the box was diverted neatly by Morris and the ball flew past Parton, and into the back of the net.

It was a great comeback from Tividale after looking dead and buried the lads showed real character to come from 3 down and take a point back from the league leaders.

Full Time:- Congleton Town 3-3 Tividale

Tividale:- 1. Louis Connor, 2. Zac Kourouyianni, 4. Jakob Burroughs. 5. Joe Hawkins 6. Lewis Wright), 7. Ryan Snape, 8. Jack Till, 9. Dominic Dell (17 Ewan Edwards 63), 10. James Douglas, 11. Malcolm Melvin (16. Max Morris 46), 12. Kamol Campbell (3. Callum Gillies 46)

Unused Sub:- 14. Jamie Oliver

Tividale

1	Private: Louis Connor Goalkeeper
2	Private: Zacharias Kourouyianni Defender
4	Private: Jakob Burroughs Midfielder
5	Private: Joe Hawkins Defender
9	Private: Dominic Dell 17 Forward
10	Private: James Douglas Midfielder
11	Private: Lewis Wright Defender
15	Private: Kamol Campbell 3 Defender
20	Private: Ryan Snape Midfielder	33', 34'
22	Private: Malcolm Melvin 16 Midfielder
27	Private: Jack Till Forward
3	Private: Callum Gillies 15 Defender
16	Private: Max Morris 22 Midfielder	88'
17	Private: Ewan Edwards 9 Forward

Congleton Town

Tividale

Stourport Swifts vs Tividale

Midland Football League
Premier Division
Tuesday 30th January 2024
Stourport Swifts 3-2 Tividale

Close but no cigar

We called for a response after Saturday’s abject display and we got one. On a bitterly cold night, the lads literally rolled up their sleeves and battled it out toe to toe with their high flying host’s but not for the first time, they came away with no points just as they did on Saturday.

After the weekends defeat, changes were somewhat inevitable and in came for Kamol Campbell for Callum Gillies, Joe Hawkins for Tarryl Davis, James Douglas for Lewis Wright, Max Morris for Cody Mullan and Dominic Dell for Ryan Snape

Swifts started brightly, and after two minutes Jim Hanson was found by a Matt Harland long ball and he tested Louis Connor in the Tividale goal with a 25yarder which he tipped over the bar at full stretch, and two minutes later brother Matt provided a pin point cross from the left for Goodluck Eke to rise at the far post and place an angled header past Connor.

Tividale levelled the score after 14 minutes from a well worked corner routine which saw Max Morris drive high into the net past Jamie Emery. Aaron Birch tested Connor again with a low shot following a Meddows’ corner, and Ethan Tivey almost made it two for the Swifts after a smart knock down from Eke.

The visitors could have gone in front on the half hour when Jack Till burst through on goal, but delayed just long enough for Ethan Hanson to get back and block his shot with a fine tackle.

Eke was on hand to score his second on 36 minutes when he forced the ball home from close range after another Meddows corner to put the Swifts in front, but Tividale hit back quickly, and only saves in succession by Emery first from a clever flick from Dominic Dell on 43 minutes, and then on the stroke of half time a snapshot from Ewan Edwards, kept Stourport’s in front.

Half Time:- Stourport Swifts 2-1 Tividale

Tividale started the second period as they ended the first on the front foot and had a great chance on 53 minutes when Emery failed to hold onto a Till cross, but no Tividale player was on hand to cash in. Then a Douglas cross on the hour mark was headed straight into Emery’s arms by substitute Malcolm Melvin in what was his first touch of the ball.

At the other end the impressive Jamie Meadows fired high and wide. Eke had the chance for his hat trick on the 67 minutes after being put through by Meddows, but his fierce effort was well saved by Connor, then Meddows took a long range crack himself which skidded just wide.

As we moved into the last 10 minutes of the game, a Snape free kick found the head of Hawkins, but Emery saved comfortably.

With 8 minutes to go Swifts added a third when Meddows cut in from the right past two defenders. picked his spot and drilled a low shot just inside the left hand post from the edge of the box, but Tividale would not lie down, and responded immediately when Till won the ball just in the Stourport half and laid it off to Snape. His pass found Melvin who fired in a rising 20yarder that although Emery got a hand to it, he couldn’t keep it out to give Stourport an anxious last five minutes.

And in that time tividale had two chances to find an equaliser. First on 86 minutes when Till lobbed Emery but a defender got back to clear off the line. And then from a Snape corner Jakob Burroughs volleyed wide.

Full Time:- Stourport Swifts 3-2 Tividale

Tividale:- 1. Louis Connor, 2. Zac Kourouyianni, 12. Kamol Campbell (3. Callum Gillies 70}, 4. Jakob Burroughs. 5. Joe Hawkins 6. Joe Burroughs 8. Jack Till, 9. Dominic Dell (11. Malcolm Melvin 58), 10. James Douglas (18. Tarryl Davis), 16. Max Morris ( 7. Lewis Wright 73). 17 Ewan Edwards (15. Ryan Snape 73),

Unused Sub:- None

Tividale

1	Private: Louis Connor Goalkeeper
2	Private: Zacharias Kourouyianni Defender
4	Private: Jakob Burroughs Midfielder
5	Private: Joe Hawkins Defender
6	Private: Joseph Burroughs Defender
9	Private: Dominic Dell 22 Forward
10	Private: James Douglas Midfielder
15	Private: Kamol Campbell 3 Defender
16	Private: Max Morris 18 Midfielder	14'
27	Private: Jack Till Forward
17	Private: Ewan Edwards 20 Forward
3	Private: Callum Gillies 15 Defender
11	Private: Lewis Wright 18 Defender
18	Private: Taryll Davis 11 Defender
20	Private: Ryan Snape 17 Midfielder
22	Private: Malcolm Melvin 9 Midfielder	83'

Stourport Swifts

Tividale

Tividale vs Dudley Town

Midland Football League
Premier Division
Saturday 27th January 2024
Tividale 0-3 Dudley Town

The Torment Continues

Once again Tividale found a way to end up with no points and be well beaten in the process. as the dark cloud of relegation that hovers over the club, got a whole lot bigger.

It was 14 days without a game all due to first frozen pitches caused by the artic conditions as the temperature dipped well below freezing point and then as the temperatures became milder, the inevitable waterlogging of the pitches.

Once again, the changes rang out after the poor defeat in the league cup against Highgate United two weeks earlier. In came Louis Connor, Callum Gillies, Joe Burroughs, Jakob Burroughs, Lewis Wright, Jack Till, Ewan Edwards, and Tarryl Davis replacing Tim Beech, Kamol Campbell, Joe Hawkins, Max Morris, Arman Khoshkhoo, Lewis Taylor-Boyce, Dominic Dell, and James Douglas

The game couldn’t have got off to a worse start for the home side when after just 6 minutes Dudley were ahead. Tividale lost possession on the edge of the visitors box and Connor Archer sweeps the ball from right to left and finds Harry Crook who’s cross is turned home by Ethan Muckley. It should have been 3-0 within a few minutes, when Crook spurned two great chances. First 5 minutes later when Crook again hit Tividale on the counter but fired wide and then on 18 minutes Connor turned his shot around the post. Muckley had a chance to make it 2-0 on 25 minutes, but he headed straight at Connor.

It wasn’t until the 27th minute that the home side threatened the Dudley goal, and it was Edwards that saw his near post shot brilliantly turned around the post by the Dudley Town keeper Alex Graham.

Tividale were getting a bit of a foothold in the game and on 31 minutes a Jakob Burroughs long throw was cleared back to him, and his first time shot went wide. But within two minutes Dudley had doubled their lead. From a Tividale corner Dudley broke the ball is played out to Muckley and his cross is turned home by Crook

A Snape free kick in the 38th minute was again turned around the post by the Graham and in the last bit of first half action Jordan Davies fired well over the bar in the 42nd minute.

Half Time:-Tividale 0-2 Dudley Town

A Snape free kick in the 61st minute that sailed wide was the first real effort on goal in the second half from either side and a minute later a Jakob Burroughs long throw found Till at the back post, but he fired over from 6 yards.

The visitors were soon back in their stride and Connor did well to deny Crook with his legs on 64 minutes and an Alex Perry header from a Davies free kick on 68 minutes was well held by Connor. But on 76 minutes Dudley scored their third. A Davies free kick found an unmarked Jamie Beddall and the centre half thundered his header past Connor and into the net.

A minute later and Tividale’s misery was complete when Snape was brought down in the Dudley area, he got up, picked up the ball, placed it on the spot and yes you guessed it, smacked the ball high and wide. With 10 minutes to go Till had the chance for a consolation goal when through on goal but again he failed to beat Graham with his shot.

It has to be said that although we do not have the greatest of fanbase in this league, those who pay their money and the volunteers who give up their precious spare time for the club, expect the lads who step over the white line in a Tividale shirt, to give their all for the 90 plus minutes. We did not get anywhere near that today. This was a woeful performance, and we are now circling the drain of relegation.

Full Time:-Tividale 0-3 Dudley Town

Tividale:- 1. Louis Connor, 2. Zac Kourouyianni, 3. Callum Gillies (12. Kamol Campbell 85), 4. Jakob Burroughs. 6. Joe Burroughs (16. Max Morris 85), 7. Lewis Wright (9. Dominic Dell 58), 8. Jack Till, 14. Cody Mullan, 15. Ryan Snape, 17. Ewan Edwards, 18. Tarryl Davis (10. James Douglas 64)

Unused Sub:- 11. Malcolm Melvin

Tividale

1	Private: Louis Connor Goalkeeper
2	Private: Zacharias Kourouyianni Defender
3	Private: Callum Gillies 15 Defender
4	Private: Jakob Burroughs 16 Midfielder
6	Private: Joseph Burroughs Defender
11	Private: Lewis Wright 9 Defender
14	Private: Cody Mullan Midfielder
17	Private: Ewan Edwards Forward
18	Private: Taryll Davis 10 Defender
20	Private: Ryan Snape Midfielder
27	Private: Jack Till Forward
9	Private: Dominic Dell 11 Forward
10	Private: James Douglas 18 Midfielder
15	Private: Kamol Campbell 3 Defender
16	Private: Max Morris 4 Midfielder
22	Private: Malcolm Melvin Midfielder

Tividale

Dudley Town

Date	Event	Time/Results	Venue
2026-04-11 15:00:27April 11, 2026	Tividale vs Abbey Hulton United	0 - 2	N/A
2026-04-06 15:00:09April 6, 2026	Dudley Town vs Tividale	6 - 3	N/A
2026-04-04 15:00:06April 4, 2026	Stone Old Alleynians vs Tividale	3 - 1	N/A

Player	Appearances
Edward Rann	37
Papy Brandon Mossini	36
Bradley Maslen-Jones	34
Thomas Rann	32
Shakeel Brown	29
Joseph Garrington	27
Ezekiel Agyemang	26
Alfie Higgs	25
Matt Holland	20
Samuel Bratt-Wyton	18
Wayne Mubayi	18
Myles Durham	17
Ben McSkeane	15
Liam Matthews	15
Junior Mpanu-Mpanu	12
Nathan Oyemade	11
Jack Higgs	11
Joe Williams	7
Jordan Spragg	6
Richard Smith	6
Urio Hijambazapo	5
Abdelouaheb Alouane	5
Morgan Jones	5
Lewis Derrick	4
Zac Grosvenor	4
Ethan Delaney	2
Ellis Harris	2
Joshua Aka Raphael	1
Goodluck Eke	1
William Woodall	1
Callum Lloyd	0

Player	Goals
Bradley Maslen-Jones	11
Ezekiel Agyemang	7
Matt Holland	5
Alfie Higgs	5
Wayne Mubayi	3
Ben McSkeane	2
Liam Matthews	1
Ellis Harris	1
Urio Hijambazapo	1
Myles Durham	1
Shakeel Brown	1
Richard Smith	1
Joseph Garrington	1
Papy Brandon Mossini	1
Nathan Oyemade	0

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