We must focus on ourselves

Kettering Town are back on home soil today and bidding to get back to winning ways. Having hit top spot in the Evo-Stik South League Premier on New Year’s Day, the Poppies’ stay at the summit didn’t even last a week as they suffered a 3-2 defeat at Basingstoke Town last weekend.

Their scheduled trek to Tiverton Town on Tuesday fell foul of the weather and they, like the others at the top end, could only sit back and watch as Hereford maintained their charge towards the summit with a 2-1 success at Stratford Town. The title favourites are now just a point behind Kettering and two behind leaders King’s Lynn Town with three games in hand on both.

And while Poppies boss Marcus Law insists the Bulls will deserve credit if they overcome their hectic fixture schedule and continue their surge, he insists Kettering must focus on their own matches, the next of which is against Kings Langley at Latimer Park this weekend.

“Hereford have got a tough ask this month,” Law said. “Their squad is being tested but they got the job done again the other night and there’s no doubt that, at the moment, they are the benchmark.

“They have a lot of games to play in a short space of time but if they come through the rest of this month and February unscathed then they will be tough to stop.

Source Jon Dunham - Northants Telegraph