Farnham Town 3, Bedfont & Feltham 1

In life you can only do so much, sometimes you need a little help from your friends.

That adage applies in football too and on Saturday Farnham managerial duo Luke Turkington and Lee Pollard will be looking for their old side to do them a favour as they chase a third-placed finish in Division One of the Combined Counties League.

Despite overrunning one-time title favourites Bedfont & Feltham at the Memorial Ground on Saturday, Tooting Bec’s 1-0 win at home to Frimley Green on Tuesday night droped Town down to fourth with one game to play.

So Farnham head to Epsom & Ewell in two days needing not only a win but also a big favour from Sandhurst Town against Tooting Bec.

“We’ve got to hope they (Tooting Bec) lose on Saturday while we win to gain third spot. Hopefully we’ll do our job and Sandhurst can do a job for us,” said boss Luke Turkington, who spent two years at Sandhurst before taking over the reins at Farnham last summer.

Either way, Town are now guaranteed a place in the top four which, while not the top spot that Turkington coveted when he took over nine months ago, still represents a decent season and a learning curve.

“It’s always good to guarantee at least fourth place because you should automatically be in the FA Cup for the next season,” said Turkington, “so after Saturday we knew we had that.

“It was really important to get that win and now it’s down to us with one last game to see if we can have that last hurrah and get the three points. If we can get third place, that would be a good place to finish this season and hopefully to kick on the next.”

On Saturday, Town didn’t have to be at their best to see off a Bedfont side who have had an alarming fall from grace having been beaten in seven out of their last eight games, including a 4-2 defeat at home to Farnham a month ago. And in all honesty they never looked like halting their eight-game winless run which has seen them ship 26 goals.

But Farnham had to wait until two minutes before half time on a sweltering day to open their account when Nick Medcraft was adjudged to have been obstructed by a defender as he looked for Walter Verkaik’s cross and Matt Glass duly despatched the penalty.

From then on it was pretty routine for Farnham, although they did have a couple of let offs early in the second half when a misdirected clearing header from Max Meaton resulted in the ball being blasted over the bar from a promising position while a pacy forward outstripped the backpedalling defence but saw his low shot fiz narrowly wide.

That aside it was all Farnham as the well-timed runs of Glass and Medcraft in particular and the clever balls over the top from Rowan Sharratt and Kye Nash pierced Bedfont’s porous back line time and again.

And one such foray, on 62 minutes, saw Medcraft spring the offside trap as he latched onto Meaton’s excellent through ball before coolly lobbing the ball over the onrushing goalkeeper – just minutes after ballooning the ball high over the crossbar after good link-up play between Nash and Glass.

Two minutes later it was 3-0 as Sharratt spotted the run of Glass who raced from inside his own half before clinically finding the bottom corner after firing right-footed back across the goalkeeper.

The only blot on Town’s copybook came in stoppage time as poacher Michael Capon lofted the ball into the empty net after being left unmarked at the back post.

“Bedfont are a good side, they know that we are a good side and we both looked at each other and thought we could both have won the league, so there was a bit of a reality check which made the game feel a bit like a pre-season game,” said Turkington.

“We were both going through the motions a bit but it was a case of which team wanted it a little bit more on the day, and I think the result was justified.

“It was advantage us because we beat them at their place a few weeks ago and we took advantage of that.

“Some of the boys played average but average was enough that day.”

Tomorrow, Farnham Town round off their league campaign away at Epsom & Ewell (kick-off 3pm).