After last week’s game in the Buildbase FA Vase, Hinckley AFC return to league action with another tough away trip to in-form Cadbury Athletic tomorrow, kick off 3pm.
AFC left the national competition at the fifth round stage with last week’s extra time defeat to Buckland Athletic, in which Sam Agar’s hat-trick wasn’t enough to keep Hinckley’s Vase dreams alive.
Now, Carl Abbott’s side must turn their attention back to the Midland League First Division and will want to return to winning ways after losing two league games on the bounce before Buckland.
Those losses to Bromsgrove Sporting and Atherstone Town have left them 13 points behind leaders Atherstone, albeit with five games in hand, and 11 points behind Bromsgrove having played just one game fewer than the Rouslers.
And the games don’t get any easier for Abbo’s men, who tomorrow travel to a Cadbury 
side who haven’t lost a game since their defeat in the reverse fixture at St John’s Park at the start of November.
In fact, only undefeated Bromsgrove have lost fewer games than Cadbury’s three. Included in that unbeaten run are five straight wins, the latest of which last weekend saw them shut out a Racing Club Warwick side who previously hadn’t failed to score in a league game this season.
The Chocolatemen have conceded just one goal those five straight wins, a run that has seen them rise above AFC to sixth in the table. They have won 11 and drawn 11 of their 25 league games.
Cadbury play at what used to be Pilkington XXX’s ground in Kings Norton – the TSA Sports Ground, Eckersall Road, Kings Norton, Birmingham, B38 8SR.
