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TAUNTON Blackbrook finished their season in ignominious style as they suffered a 6-0 hammering at home to Somerset County League Premier Division leaders Nailsea United on Saturday.

Blackbrook, with nothing to play for and an end-of-season look about them, were 2-0 down to two soft goals at the interval and shipped four more in the second half.

The home side, who made veteran forward Chris Woon captain for the day on his final appearance for the club, did play some decent football in the first period but went behind inside two minutes when an unmarked United man flicked home a corner.

It was 2-0 on 26 minutes and it could have been worse soon after but for a fine penalty save by James Self.

Nailsea, who sealed the title by beating Burnham United on Monday, capitalised on a defensive blunder to make it 3-0 three minutes after the break and before long they were four up.

With Blackbrook's regular penalty taker Chris Curtis out injured, Mike Nixon saw a spot-kick saved after he had been felled in the box.

Nailsea rubbed salt into the hosts' wounds by scoring two quickfire, well-taken goals in the 83rd and 84th minutes.

Blackbrook will finish their debut season in the Premier Division in a creditable tenth place, provided Shirehampton fail to win away at Burnham on Saturday.

Following a poor start to the season, when Blackbrook lost players to Taunton Town and Wellington, they put in a tremendous sequence of results to go from fourth bottom to fourth top by the turn of the year.

They never recaptured that form in the second half of the campaign as they missed a regular goalscorer, won just three times and slipped briskly down the table.

Blackbrook are holding a joint end-of-season presentation evening with Taunton Town at the Holiday Inn, Taunton, on July 7.

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