It's rampant Royton!

TOTAL RESPECT . . . Royton Park stand for a minute's silence to remember the Brazil plane crash

Royton Park 14, Oxford Inn 1

ADAM Sutcliffe scored FIVE times as Royton Park hammered Oxford Inn at Clayton playing fields in Division Three of the Tameside Sports Tours International Football League.

Individual five-goal hauls are becoming something of the norm in recent weeks, with Callum Franklin's strikes in successive matches for Fitton Hill leading the way.

Sutcliffe's goals were as merciless as his side's performance against an Oxford team who arrived with 10 players.

Park player-boss Lewis Waterman said: "It was a game we knew we had to turn up and win and while no one likes to batter teams like this, we had to do a job."

Park are one of the new kids on the block this season and with 23-year-old Waterman at the helm look like a club that is going places.

PROMOTION

Waterman, who managed Chaddy End FC for six years prior to joining Park, added: "Our aim is to get promotion in our first season and we'll see how things go after that. This was a great result for us and improves our goal difference."

The reality is that Park would have overcome a full compliment Oxford side in any case, having beaten them 10-2 earlier this season in a cup competition.

You had to feel sorry for Tameside-based Oxford, whose goal difference even before this game was minus 43.

The dejected Oxford goalkeeper summed up his side's season so far perfectly - the trouble is that I can't use his words here. Safe to say that they weren't pleasant! As for Park, they remain unbeaten in the league and with several matches in hand on the teams around them.

Both sides, along with referee Blaize Charles, observed one minute's silence before kick-off in respect of the recent Brazilian plane tragedy in which 71 people died, the majority of the victims from the Chapecoense Football Club.

GOALS: Sutcliffe (18, 25, 37, 44, 68), Renwick (65, 76, 85), Robinson (5, 11), Wilson (12), H McNally (41), Waterman (70), L McNally (89).

ROYTON PARK: Thorburn, Jones, Caveney, Orr, Harrop, H McNally, L McNally, Hargreaves, Sutcliffe, Lovatt, Renwick. Subs: Waterman, Tinker, Robinson.

STAR MAN: Adam Sutcliffe (Royton Park) - Five goals says it all.