Mildenhall Town player-manager Phil Weavers looking for swift response to Lakenheath setback

Phil Weavers has encouraged his Mildenhall Town players to ‘move on’ and ‘bounce back’ from their 1-0 Boxing Day defeat to Lakenheath.

The narrow loss to their neighbours was just the second that the Thurlow Nunn League Premier Division leaders have suffered this season – and their first on home soil.

But with a six-point advantage over second-placed Newmarket Town and a game in hand, Weavers was far from despondent after the match – one in which his side had to play a large segment of with 10 players following the first-half dismissal of Adam Capel.

“We’re disappointed with the result, regardless of what went on during the game. The red (card) has had a big say in it but we’ve dominated the game with 10 men – we’re frustrated,” he said.

“Anyone watching the game will say we deserved something from it but that’s football.

“You never get too high and you never get too low because I’ve it said before, we were never going to be perfect this season. We were always going to slip up at times and it will be a close run-in – it always is.

“Fair play to Lakenheath, they’ve played well and we have to bounce back. For the amount of possession we’ve had, we’ve probably not worked the goalkeeper as much as we should have and again, you can credit them for the way that they’ve defended. They put their bodies on the line.

“If you’d have told me at the start of the season that after Boxing Day we’d have won 17, drawn one and lost two, I’d have snapped your hand off.

“It’s one result, it doesn’t define us and we have to move on. If you look at football from the top level to the bottom, teams that win leagues will lose games. It’s not a shock or a disaster or anything like that.”