HELLO and welcome to what Steve (Bugg) jokingly titled the “Aaron Condon memorial edition” of the Clacton Gazette sport section!

The main story to come out of Saturday’s victory over Whitton United was, of course, Aaron setting the new record for FC Clacton goals.

I’m delighted for Aaron.

He’s a lovely guy and, being a Clacton boy, he takes great pride in playing and captaining his home-town team.

He can be infuriating at times (I regularly rib him about his ‘ability’ to run into offside positions) but when you need a goal he is always likely to deliver, even if he hasn’t had a sniff for 89 minutes.

And you can’t argue with his record.

Over 20 goals in a struggling team for the last two seasons and set to do it again this year is no mean feat.

Without his goals we’d have been in even more trouble.

Plus, his FA Cup goal-scoring exploits have provided some great memories and valuable revenue for the club over the years, too.

That was the case on Saturday when, as a team, having been pretty much collectively anonymous for the first half, Aaron popped up to capitalise on a defensive mistake to give us an undeserved lead.

The real turning point had been a missed penalty for Whitton after half an hour – a rare occasion where we’ve been on the right side of a bit of penalty fortune this year.

After the break, Ben Parkin’s two goals saw us home, in the end fairly comfortably.

I was equally delighted for Ben, who has had a bit of a goal drought but has deserved far more goals than he’s got this season.

His role is one of, if not the, most unselfish in the team as he runs hard and does a lot of the dirty work, holding the ball up and bringing other players into the game, so he deserves his goals.

Typically for Ben, he’s got two on the day that Aaron broke the goal-scoring record so he still doesn’t take the headlines. Who writes that boy Condon’s scripts, eh?

Come on you Seasiders!