Beer Reserves suffered their second league defeat of the season going down 4-3 at Woodbury on Saturday, writes Richard Honnor.

After holding runaway league leaders Ottery St Mary the previous weekend, the Fishermen came down to earth with a bump after a disappointing performance despite fielding probably their strongest line-up of the season.

The only silver lining was the fight shown by captain Tom Neale who tried his utmost to drag his team back into the game. From 3-0 down they recovered to net through Simon Smith and an own goal. However, the visitors then scored a fourth before a late Neale penalty.

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