Players injured in car crash
Wiltshire Times
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17th March 2008
Chippenham & District Sunday Football League second-placed Riverside Renegades were involved in an eventful build-up to their match away at Goatacre against bottom of the table AFC Lyneham. Riverside manager Lance Davis was in a car that was involved in an accident on the way to the pitch, but unknown to Davis, who was able to take part in the match, behind him a few Lyneham players were also involved in another accident.

Unluckily for Lyneham they had to start the game with only nine players due the accident and although goalkeeper Jason Trout, who suffered a head injury in the crash, started the game another blow to the head in the second period of the match led to him retiring from the game so they finished the game with just eight men on the park.

It was therefore no surprise that Lyneham eventually crashed to a 20-0 defeat but in doing so they received great praise from their opponents as they never gave up and were a credit to themselves and the league.

The 20-0 defeat, the worst of the season, also brings an unwanted milestone for Lyneham AFC, they have now played 20 games in the Division Four campaign all ending in defeat. The record so far is they have picked no points and having scored 17 goals and conceded 184 giving them a minus 167 goal difference. Lyneham's best performance was at home in a 2-5 defeat against The Three Crowns United from Chippenham and their best result on the travels is another 2-5 defeat against Isomer.

Updated: 23rd March 2008
Lyneham AFC's next venture was at home on Sunday 23rd March 2008 against mid-table Corsham Centre 'B'. They managed to achieve their best result of the season with a 2-4 loss.