Jersey Bulls claim 10th successive win to stay top

Jersey Bulls Women won their 10th successive game as they recorded a 3-1 victory at Hartland.

The victory kept up the island side's perfect record since they joined the English football league system in the summer.

They are six points clear at the top of South East Counties Women's Football League Surrey Division One.

Bulls went behind in the 16th minute when Amy Littlewood found the bottom corner from the edge of the box.

But the islanders drew level 10 minutes later when Leah Morris found the net for the 10th time this season.

She then set up Natasha Keen who put Jersey Bulls in front shortly before half-time.

Sam Silva completed the win two minutes from full-time when she scored after a scramble as the hosts failed to clear a corner.

Bulls are next in action on 25 January when they travel to bottom side Guildford Saints, who have yet to win a point this season.

"After the first game and then into the second, we realised that we can really go toe-to-toe with the opposition and really take our game to them, which I think happened over the last 10 games," Jersey Bulls manager Chad Morris told BBC Sport.

"All the credit's got to go to the players for the amount they train, the amount of effort they put in, and bear in mind five of them 10 wins are away from home.

"Playing away from home you've got to get used to the travel, the early mornings, being at the airport for 0600 and then not playing until 1400 so you've got a lot of downtime.

"Then travelling to the games, the weather, you don't know what pitch you're going to be on, all that kind of stuff.

"It's not like playing in Jersey and rocking up on a Sunday morning to Les Quennevais, it's 14 hours out of your day, so even that is a lot of commitment, let alone then having to go play football and put in a good shift. "