West Midlands Premier

Dudley Sports suffered their first home defeat of the season to neighbours Brierley Hill on Saturday.

In a poor first half both teams were awful with mistake after mistake but it was Sports who took the lead when Ant Cox found Grant Joshua in space and he found the bottom corner of the net for what was to be the only shot at goal in the first half.

Half Time

Dudley Sports 1 Brieley Hill 0

The second half was marginally better with Brierley Hill starting the brighter and found a gift of a equalizer within a minute of the restart when a routine catch for Sports keeper Jay Trav was dropped into the path of Mark Gore and he tapped home.

Brierley Hill now were on top and took a surprise lead when full back Ian K struck from twenty yards and found the net.

This did spark Sports into life and they equalized with the goal of the game, Chris Raybone skipped past three defenders and sent in a great cross for the in coming Ross Harris to head home.

The game swung on a bizarre decision from the ref not to award sports a penalty when Grant Joshua was bought down when he was thru and past the last man, the ref bottled the decision deeming Joshua to have dived but gave him no yellow card and the striker played no further part thru injury.

This was to be costly when some bad defending let in Carl Martin down the right side of the pitch he cut inside and fired home from the edge of the box to seal a victory for Brierley Hill.

Take nothing away from Brierley Hill they deserved there three points but this was Sports worse performance of the season and they will have to play a lot better in the weeks to come.

Sports are hoping to have back in the squad for Ledbury visit next week.

Lough,Lester,Glover and Isherrwood  who all missed the game through injury.