A weekly series summing up the respective campaigns of our top football teams before all results were expunged amid the coronavirus pandemic.

WENDRON United were well on their way to sealing a mid-table finish in their first-ever season at Step 6 of the National League System in England.

After securing promotion from the old South West Peninsula League Division 1 West following the 2019 restructure of grassroots football, Jack Greenwood’s side were one of 20 clubs to participate in the first edition of the SWPL Premier West.

Their eagerly anticipated Premier debut was an eventful one, with the Dron coming back to rescue a 2-2 draw at Penzance on August 10, with Wendron defender Jamie Webb and Magpies man Mark Vercesi being sent off.

After securing their first-ever point at Step 6, Greenwood’s side went one better the following weekend as goals from Finn Robinson and Rory Jarvis earned a 2-0 win at Launceston for the club’s first victory at their new level.

They were unlucky not to follow it up with another one four days later when they made the short hop to Helston Athletic. The Blues were tipped by many to go on and win the league, but a second-half strike from ‘Dron forward Jack Noy cancelled out Mark Goldsworthy’s opener.

It looked as if Wendron would hold on for a superb point, but Alfie Flack popped up in the first minute of added time to break the visitors’ hearts, and earn what was the Blues’ first in their record-breaking run of 24 consecutive league wins.

Perhaps still reeling from that late heartbreak, a lacklustre 4-1 defeat at home to St Blazey followed before another 2-1 derby defeat in midweek, this time at Porthleven.

A 7-3 hammering at Camelford rounded off a disappointing end to what had previously looked like a promising first month in their new division, but that optimism was quickly restored thanks to a hat-trick of wins on the road.

First up was a dominant 4-2 win at bottom side Sticker, before going on to earn a 2-0 victory at Newquay in probably the most impressive result to date, while a 3-2 win at St Dennis, in which the Dron were 2-0 down at the break and needed a last-minute winner, rounded off a superb week.

That took us to September 17 and a key moment in the club’s history – the unveiling of the brand-new floodlights at their Underlane ground.

More than 200 people came to watch Wendron’s first-ever home game under lights, and although the result didn’t match the occasion – a 2-1 defeat to Penzance – the night would live long in the club’s memory.

Next up was a 6-3 extra-time defeat at Dobwalls in the Walter C Parson League Cup, in which the Dron had played the last 110 minutes of the tie with ten men after centre-back Scott Palmer was sent off early on, before surrendering a half-time lead to lose 2-1 at home to Bodmin Town in a rain-sodden affair.

They then made up for that defeat to Penzance with a 4-3 win over Godolphin Atlantic in their second game under the new lights, but the dominant ‘Dron had to weather a late storm of two goals in the dying minutes to do so.

A run of three defeats in four games followed in a largely forgettable October, before a TJ Walter brace ensured a narrow 3-2 win at home to Sticker in their final game for a month as rain stopped play.

They returned to action with a 1-0 defeat at Callington Town in the Cornwall Senior Cup third round on November 16, only for it to emerge a few weeks after that Callington had fielded an ineligible player and subsequently set up a home tie for Wendron against Torpoint Athletic in the fourth round on January 4.

Further postponements meant that Wendron managed just three more games between the two ties. The first was a spirited 4-2 defeat at title-chasing Saltash United, the second saw Walter score a hat-trick in a 5-0 hammering of St Dennis, and the third was a Boxing Day defeat at home to Falmouth Town, which saw Andrew Westgarth’s side claim the Kevin Williamson Memorial Cup in memory of Wendron’s former chairman.

The new year began with that tie against Torpoint, but four goals in a 20-minute spell in the first half ensured a comfortable stroll into the last eight for the visitors as Wendron suffered their second Senior Cup defeat of the season.

But Greenwood’s boys shrugged off that disappointment with a 2-1 win at home to Porthleven the following weekend. Walter and Jarvis scored the winning goals, but they were both players’ last for the club, with Walter joining Falmouth and Jarvis moving to Sticker a month later.

Successive defeats to Newquay and Saltash United followed before rain stopped play for another five weeks, and that break clearly did some good as Wendron returned to action with a bang in the form of a 4-0 win at home to Callington on March 7.

That, as it turned out, was their final game of the season before the 2019/20 campaign reached its abrupt conclusion and was declared null and void, with the Dron in 12th place at the time of the decision.