Nine-man Peterborough Sports were humiliated at Worksop Town
Relegated Peterborough Sports were humiliated at Worksop Town in their penultimate game of the National League North season.
Sports went down to an 8-0 defeat after suffering two red cards.
But it was already 4-0 when Elliott Whitehouse was dismissed for foul and abusive language, 6-0 at the break, and 8-0 when Birmingham City loanee Zach Willis was despatched with another 30 minutes still to play. It was some consolation for Sports that they conceded no further goals with nine men.
Worksop, who won promotion to this level last season, were ruthless once Oli Greaves had opened the scoring on seven minutes following a fine flowing team move.
Greaves quickly doubled his tally just four minutes later when he headed in a cross from Hamza Bencherif. It was 3-0 on 15 minutes when a deflected shot from Mason O’Malley found the back of the net and Szem Whyte-Hall joined in the fun two minutes later when turning a cross past shell-shocked goalkeeper Mackenzie Chapman who had only joined Sports on an emergency loan from Salford City on Friday.
It was 5-0 on 32 minutes, and just eight minutes after Whitehouse had departed as Whyte-Hall added a second goal and Liam Waldock rubbed salt into the wounds with a sixth goal on the stroke of half time.
The second half led to more goals for the hosts, as Greaves completed his hat-trick in the 57th minute and Whyte-Hall finished off his hat-trick shortly afterwards.
Worksop kept hunting for more goals, but Chapman made a couple of fine saves.
Sports, who are next-to-bottom, are at Hereford United in their final fixture next Saturday (April 25). Hereford are stull battling against relegation.
Worksop: Lewis Forshaw, Josh Wilde, Hamza Bencherif, Vaughan Redford, Aleks Starcenko ( sub Luke Hall 64 mins), Oli Greaves (Jay Rollins sub 58 jmins), Mason O’Malley, Deegan Atherton (sub Sean Tarima 64 mins), Lewis Whitham, Liam Waldock (sub Sam Wedgbury 72 mins), Szhem Whyte-Hall (sub Chae Whitman-Brown 61 mins).
Sports: Mackenzie Chapman, Aaron Powell (sub Kevin Joshua, 59 mins), Ryan Fryatt, Zach Willis, Ian Kamga, Elliott Whitehouse, Marcel Oakley, Dan Jarvis (sub Jez Davies, 59 mins), Luca Miller, Max Booth, Shaq Coulthirst.