Following Monday’s 3-1 win at Ilford and the other midweek results, Boro still sit fourth in the Essex Senior League table and with 19 goals scored, are the league’s second highest scoring team. Only Stanway Rovers with 21 have scored more. Other games in midweek saw Woodford Town return to the top of the table after their 4-1 away win against White Ensign, who became the first team to score against The Woods in a league fixture this season.

For the second Saturday running there’s no game for Boro this weekend; one without a fixture at this time of the season is rare enough, two on the trot is almost unprecedented. Last weekend was an FA Cup date, but there were five Essex Senior League games played. This weekend there is just one league fixture, but there are eleven FA Vase ties involving fourteen ESL teams.

After last season’s FA Vase triumph (and it’s still somewhat unreal to write that) Romford are exempt until the Second Round Proper, as are last season’s losing finalists, Great Wakering Rovers. Saffron Walden Town are the third ESL side with an exemption, they enter in the First Round Proper. Three Essex Senior League sides are already out of this season’s competition, namely Ilford, Little Oakley, and Woodford Town, who lost to Harlow Town, Potton United, and Hadleigh United respectively.

This weekend’s fixtures involving Essex Senior League clubs are:

Friday 20th September:

FA Vase

Enfield Borough v Frenford

Saturday 21st September:

Essex Senior League Premier Division:

Little Oakley v Athletic Newham

FA Vase 2nd Qualifying Round. ESL teams in bold:

Barking v Takeley
Benfleet v Baldock Town
Brantham Athletic v Sawbridgeworth Town
Buckhurst Hill v Newbury Forest
Colney Heath v Stanway Rovers
Halstead Town v Haverhill Borough
Letchworth Garden City Eagles v FC Clacton
Potton United v Hullbridge Sports
Shefford Town & Campton v West Essex
Stansted v Burnham Ramblers

Boro’s next game is a home tie in the Errington Challenge Cup on Wednesday 25th September when Stanway Rovers are the visitors.