Trailing 8-0 & down to six players - abandoned game labelled a 'farce'

Speaking to Andover Town's website,, external Skeates said: "I've been involved in football a long time and I've genuinely never seen anything like what happened today from an opposition side.

"All 11 of their players walked off perfectly fine at half-time with us 7-0 up.

"They eventually came back out with seven, so apparently four must have managed to get injured in the changing room.

"We scored pretty much straight away to make it 8-0 and from there it became a complete farce."

BBC Sport has asked the league for Paulsgrove FC's contact details but that request was declined.

However, several posts on X appearing to come from Paulsgrove's official account claimed the players were all genuinely injured.