Simon takes it as wed!

Source: M.E.N.

STUART BRENNAN

FC UNITED hero Simon Carden has a strange sense of romance - until it comes to his club’s dreams of reaching Wembley.

The Rebels midfielder scored twice and set up the third as they broke down Padiham’s stiff resistance in the first round proper of the FA Vase.

The warehouse worker had not started for FC for nearly three weeks as he took his new bride Theresa on honeymoon... supping Guinness in Dublin.

But after being recalled, Carden made an immediate impact in front of a near-capacity 1,371 crowd at the Arbories Memorial Ground in north Lancashire.

He clinically finished chances in the 65th and 73rd minutes before sending Stuart Rudd clear for his 17th goal of the season in the sixth minute of injury time.

That put FC into today’s draw for the second round, but manager Karl Marginson warned: “It’s early days. Once it goes national you never know who you can come up against.”