MARSH UNITED described their match with Woodman as 'possibly the worst game of football ever played.'

Gale-force winds at the Bay Athletic ground, Salendine Nook, made for atrocious conditions and a somewhat bizarre winning goal.

Woodman chose to play with the wind at their backs in the first half and pinned Marsh back to the edge of their box, with the number of goal-kicks reaching close to the three-figure mark.

Goalkeeper Chris Riley, Proctor, Colenutt, O'Connor and Carson put up a brave display and prevented any score in the first half, with the best chance falling to new signing Laverick, who passed to the Woodman keeper when he found himself one-on-one.

Expectations were high in the Marsh camp as they had the advantage of the conditions and another new signing Dave Catherill scored after five minutes.

But Woodman were not about to lie down and a quick break ended with an impressive finish by Hall.

But Marsh stole the winner in strange fashion. Lee O'Connor's speculative free kick from 70 yards out hit defender Hall and looped some 20ft in the air and dropped just in time to get between the bar and the desperately retreating keeper.

Cravens hit Britannia Sports for six at Dryclough, where they dominated the game from start to finish.

Ash Taylor got the nod ahead of striker Craig Smith and made it count by netting a hat trick.

His first came with great help from the wind.

His shot from the edge of the penalty area looked to be sailing harmlessly over the bar until a gust of wind caught it and the ball dropped down and into the net.

His second followed a well-worked move, and his hat trick was completed with a shot that went in off a post.

John Newiss headed home a close-range fourth, Martin Milner scored with a shot from just outside the area and Newiss completed the scoring following a good run by Dave Brennan.

Spinks Nest jumped to joint fourth, along with Woodfield Park and Field Head, following a 3-1 win over HD One at Lindley recreation ground, where goals from Waywell and Lukevitch were decisive.

Star HQ beat struggling Waterloo BC 3-0 with goals from Liam Brothers and Liam Gill, but Star's Andy Brook felt the Bowling Club side had shown a marked improvement from when the two sides clashed earlier in the season.

Basement club First Huddersfield secured a very creditable 3-3 draw against mid-table Pak Rangers at Leeds Road Playing Fields.

Rangers went 2-0 up through Kajit Khan but busmen's keeper Chris Dalton scored direct from a wind-assisted kick and then Chris Monro and Steve Wilkinson put them in front only for Zaman Ullah to equalise with two minutes remaining.

* Woodfield Park reached the last 16 of the West Riding County FA Trophy with a 5-3 win over Double L, leaders of the Leeds Premier League.

Rob Bordman struck four, despite missing a penalty, and brother Dave got the other.