Mansfield Town 2 v Rushden & Diamonds1 - Blue Square Premier

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Saturday 2nd April 2011 - Blue Square Premier
at Field Mill, Quarry Lane, Mansfield

Mansfield Town (1) 2 (Luke Medley 30, Louis Briscoe 90+)
Rushden & Diamonds (1) 1 (Aaron O'Connor 15)

Admission £15, Programme £3, Attendance 1758

Mansfield Town: Marriott (Grof 41), Stonehouse, Foster, Naylor, Istead, Briscoe, Murray, Thompson, Higginson (O'Rafferty 90), Connor, Medley.
Subs Not Used: Sandwith, Preece, Hall.

Rushden & D'monds: Joe Day, Miller (Farrell 87), Huke (Osano 74), Corcoran, Jamie Day, Power, Mills, Porter, O'Connor (Johnson 67), Gash, Charles.

Subs Not Used: Evans, Keehan.

Shapely and attractive

Rushden Anne Diamonds came into existence when football teams from Rushden and nearby Irthlingborough merged with a shapely and attractive young TV presenter called Anne Diamond. Success followed success and backed by Max Griggs, controller of the Dr Marten's boots empire, they scaled the dizzy heights of the third level of the Football League pyramid, AKA the same division that is currently called Npower League 1 (Division 3 for older readers and traditionalists), but these days find themselves sauntering around harmlessly in mid table in the Blue Square Bet Premier (still almost universally called 'the Conference') - exactly the same as Mansfield Town.
These days Anne Diamond looks ever so slightly different ... there but for the grace of God, eh!?
Match report and finer details to follow in due course