Frontrunners Faversham thumped basement boys Lydd - despite playing much of the match with an outfield player in goal - on Tuesday.
The struggling Lydders had forward Jerson Dos Santos sent off for a challenge on goalkeeper Jacob Russell, a tackle which ended Russell’s night, during an eventful Southern Counties East Premier Division match.
With No.2 Lewis Briggs not named on the substitutes’ bench, midfielder Jarred Trespaderne donned the gloves.
But Tommy Warrilow’s team still romped into a 4-0 half-time advantage through a treble by man-of-the-match Danny Parish after top scorer Tashi-Jay Kwayie’s opening goal.
After the restart, striker Stefan Payne got the Lydders on the scoresheet with a penalty against his former team. But goals from defender Bradley Simms, as well as substitutes Johan Caney-Bryan, Ian Draycott and Dan Thompson, ensured it ended 8-1 to Faversham.
Town created the first opportunity inside 90 seconds when playmaker Nathan Wood sent Simms’ left-wing cross narrowly over at the start of a fixture which was about as one-sided as the league table would suggest it would be.
Four minutes later, Kwayie fired a snapshot wide in front of a crowd of 327 at Salters Lane.
But the eighth-minute saw the first big moment. Only a great save by Lilywhites goalkeeper Russell prevented striker Payne from firing in a fierce free-kick against his old club, with a visiting player then taking out Russell as he went for a seemingly loose ball.
And referee Amarachi Okamgba eventually brandished Dos Santos, another ex-Town man, with a straight red card.
That wasn’t the end of the early drama, though, as Russell was unable to continue, leaving Trespaderne to come off the substitutes’ bench - and he headed straight in goal!
But
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