From the Wylye Valley Life magazine, issue no.41, Friday 13th December 1985:
Injuries are causing havoc to Heytesbury’s plans. They have been unable to field a settled side and consequently their performances have not been up to last season’s standards. A replay was needed to overcome Steeple Ashton 6-5 in the Wilts Junior Cup 1st round, with Paul Newman (2), Mark Gunter, Steve McKee, Chris Elloway and Derrick Penny scoring.
A League trip to Bradford-on-Avon realised just one point with Elloway equalising before Bratton visited Heytesbury to hand out a convincing 5-2 defeat. This latter resultt was more upsetting because, with Bratton at the bottom of the table, Heytesbury must have fancied their chances to gain maximum points. Elloway and Newman scored for Heytesbury.
But Heytesbury have progressed to the third round of the League A+B Cup thanks to a 2-1 victory over Westbury side Ross Hillman last Saturday – Derrick Penny and Steve Eyre scored the vital goals.
Report by Peter Farrell.