Martyrs Big Away Day

Merthyr Town face a near 500-miles round trip to Norfolk to face the promotion chasing Linnets at the Walks on Saturday (3pm).

King’s Lynn are second in the EvoStik Southern League, just behind leaders Hereford, and have won five successive Premier Division matches.

It will take the Martyrs around six hours each way by coach to face a team who have netted 12 goals and conceded three in their winning run.

Manager Ian Culverhouse, a former Norwich City player who won a Uefa Cup winners medal with Spurs in 1984, and his players are intent on chasing down Hereford.

Only the champions will be promoted automatically with the next four teams going into the play-offs.

Lynn won 1-0 at Merthyr earlier this season when Michael Gash, who helped Barnet earn promotion to the Football League three years ago, scoring the only goal.

“We have to impose ourselves on Merthyr and manage the game,” said Culverhouse. “It wasn’t the best of games when we won at their ground before Christmas, but we worked hard for the result and we’ll have to dig deep again.

“Performances are not the important thing right now. It’s just a results business and continuing to accumulate as many points as possible over the next three weeks.

“We’ll see where we are then.

“Merthyr will make things tough for us and we know what to expect.”

Source Merthyr Town FC