AFC Totton
Despite some indifferent recent form, The Boro’ are currently 3rd in the Southern League Premier Division table. Early elimination in the FA Cup, the Southern League Cup and the FA Trophy has resulted in them playing several more league games than most of their promotion rivals, but they have enough points on the board to at least keep them in the Promotion Play-Off conversation.
Gosport began their season with an impressive run of 7 wins in their first 9 league games, before losing to the two sides currently ahead of them, Metropolitan Police and Farnborough.
Their biggest win of the season was the 5-0 thrashing of Merthyr Town in mid-November, but no doubt the most exciting came at their own Privett Park ground on the opening day when two goals in stoppage time turned a 2-3 deficit against Poole Town into a spirited 4-3 win.
Goals have been shared around the team, so far this season. Long-serving striker Dan Wooden has hit the net half-a-dozen times, while classy attacking midfielder Theo Lewis, a product of the Chelsea academy, has 4 goals.
GOSPORT BOROUGH: LAST 5 MATCHES – All Competitions
Wed 17 Nov 21 Kings Langley H Southern League Premier D 1-1
Sat 20 Nov 21. Taunton Town A Southern League Premier L 1-2
Sat 27 Nov 21. Swindon Supermarine H Southern League Premier L 1-3
Wed 01 Dec 21 Wimborne Town H Southern League Premier W 2-0
Sat 04 Dec 21 Tiverton Town A Southern League Premier D 2-2
AFC TOTTON vs GOSPORT BOROUGH – Previous Meetings
A whole book could be written about the long rivalry between the Stags and the Boro’, not all of which has been conducted on the friendliest of terms. An April Fools’ Day meeting between the two sides in 2013 sticks out, when the police had to be called after tempers flared in reaction to a late Totton winner in a crucial top of the table match at Testwood Stadium. Totton had also knocked Gosport out of the Hampshire Senior Cup in January of that season, with goals from Luke Roberts, Jack Odam and Ryan Hill from the penalty spot.
Although Gosport are currently playing at a higher level, Totton have the better of the head-to-head record between the two sides. According to our records, the Stags have beaten the Boro’ 28 times over the years, to Gosport’s 13 victories – which includes 10 Totton wins out of the last 11 encounters.
The most recent episode of this long-running rivalry was an FA Trophy qualifier at Privett Park in the 2018/19 season, when a spectacular goal by central defender Stuart Mott sent the Stags on their way to a 2-1 away win.
Written by Ben Rochey-Adams and Malcolm Tombs, Historian
