Dartford 6-1 Enfield Town

FOR the second time in five days, a team visiting Princes Park was torn to shreds on Saturday.

This time it was Enfield, who boasted the best away record in the division going into the game, before suffering at the hands of the Burman Mean Machine.

The setting to Darts' Blitzkrieg start was a chill and cloudy afternoon and, attacking the "wrong" end, the sparkling process which is Darts in full van showed its trademark opening moves and the leaden-footed visitors conceded a brace of early free-kicks.

Both were instigated by Ryan Hayes and Adam Flanagan, lurking in Andre Foster's goalmouth, converted both in the space of four minutes.

Enfield showed a moment's resistance and forced a routine field from Tony Kessell.

It was on the half-hour before he was troubled again, this time from a Rudi Hall free-kick, a mere irritation in the half's action.

In response, Jay May finished off a Jamie Coyle cross after Foster had fumbled a free-kick on 31 minutes.

Fouls were, in fact, coming thick and fast, accompanied by yellow cards, but this did not interrupt Darts' flow, combining changes in attack led by Eddie McClements and the now familiar wing changes involving Hayes and Phil Williams.

Some of the through passes had to be seen to be believed, such was their exquisitness. It was sparkling stuff, but five minutes before the break, May was comprehensively fouled near to Enfield's right corner flag.

Up stepped Hayes to plant his free-kick imperiously inside Foster's right post.

The second half was 10 minutes old when McClements swept a lay-off nonchalantly past the hapless Foster for goal number five.

By now the sky was brighter and wearing rough splodges of smoke-grey cloud.

If the sporting Gods were looking down, then goal number six would have pleased them, as McClements deftly set up Brendon Cass for the type of goal only he can score.

Perhaps the Gods were looking down to issue Darts a rebuke because five minutes after the Cass goal, Enfield scored their consolation with a non-descript effort which Dartford's rearguard twice failed to clear.

The bench made substitutions. They took off wingers and what did they bring on? More wingers with more tricks.

Dartford: Kessell, Coyle, Norman, Flanagan, Osborne, O'Brien, Hayes, J May (Bradbrook 85), Cass (Lewis 85), McClements, Williams (Moore 75). Subs not used: Avery, Moore. Att: 1,004