Tunbridge Wells Foresters 5 Ebbsfleet Town 0: DFDS Kent Junior B Cup Final

Tunbridge Wells Foresters put five goals past Ebbsfleet Town to win the Kent Junior B Cup Final.

Adam Larkin opened the scoring for the Foresters with a penalty and scored another from a free-kick. Jack Stewart added a third before the break, Zach Benton made it 4-0 and Larkin completed his hat-trick in injury-time.

Foresters’ manager Eren Muduroglu was proud of his young team, who have just finished third in the Premier Division of the Sevenoaks & District League, and said: “They deserved that, they worked hard, they’re all young. The hat-trick scorer is only 17 and we had three or four 16-17-year-olds on the pitch.

“We set the team up two years ago, ready to get into men’s football, and it is working. They are loving it and this is just icing on the cake after a decent season.

“Every year they need to be better than they were at the start of the season, as long as they are better as people and players, that is our job, that is what I want.

“They are young adults, they have been through Covid, we get them off the streets, playing football with mates, keeping fit and this is their icing.

“I am pleased for them, not me. I am not results-driven. My results are them being better people, better players.”

The final took a while to get going at Chatham’s Bauvill Stadium, with Larkin firing in an early tester at Fleet keeper Leigh Watkins and David Milton shooting from range at the other end.

With just over half an hour played the Foresters took the lead from the penalty spot.

Goalkeeper Watkins had fouled Rob Elliot after making a challenge near the edge of his box. The Wells players limped off injured and Larkin scored from 12 yards.

Larkin - also on the books of Tonbridge Angels - capitalised on another foul with 40 minutes