Early pressure from the home side nearly brought a goal when after 10 minutes Matt Vickers headed over from a James Lee flick on. Nailsea only had to wait a further 10 minutes to take the lead when a pin point cross from the industrious Kevin Cosham was headed firmly into the net by James Lee.

This opened the flood gates with Mangotsfield simply not able to cope with the many Nailsea advances. On 25 minutes a Russ Driver cross was met by Stuart Lee to give Nailsea a 2 goal lead. Five minutes later the best goal of the game was scored by Matt Vickers with a text book volley from 20 yards.

Skipper Matt Long then got onto the score sheet finishing off after a goalmouth scramble. The home side looked like scoring with every attack but were pleased to go into the break with a 4 nil lead.

Five minutes after the restart the two front men Lee and Vickers combined well with the latter forcing a good save from the visiting keeper. Mangotsfield began to rally and after 55 minutes the normally competent Nailsea keeper Andy Fellows let a shot through his legs to trickle over the line.

With 30 minutes to go Nailsea made a double substitution with Mike Rowcliffe and Ben Cook replacing Stuart Lee and Rob Wilson. The home side then began to reassert themselves and increased their lead with a well worked dead ball situation. Matt Long took a quick free kick to find the head of the impressive Russ Driver who crossed for Matt Vickers to score his second goal. Nailsea 5 Mangotsfield 1.

On 75 minutes Nailsea scored with what is becoming a trade mark move. A long throw by James Taylor to James Lee. The tall striker headed the ball into the danger area for Russ Driver to finish in style. Immediately Matt Vickers was replaced by Lee Cogan.

The remaining minutes were played out with only a good save by the visiting keeper stopping Kevin Cosham adding to the score line after an exciting run took him through a static Mangotsfield defence.

This was a total team performance with the defence in a no nonsense mood the midfield working hard and the strike force looking to score with every opportunity. Nailsea will not win the league but none of the top teams will relish playing them in their current mood.