Jahmel Swan's goal six minutes from time was enough to win the Dudley Eve trophy for Dandy Town in a dire final against North Village last night.Swan took full advantage of a sleeping Village defence when he picked the ball up in midfield, exchanged passes with Damon Ming, and then ran unchecked into the penalty area before dinking the ball past Village goalkeeper Jason Williams.The goal was the singular highlight of a tepid encounter and rarely will either side play so badly. The best that can be said for the game in fact is that the crowd were spared having to watch any more than the 90-plus minutes of normal time.Overall Town probably deserved to win, ending Village's unbeaten start to the season in the process, not least because they managed to string together some attacking moves and in defender K'wonde Lathan had the best player on the pitch.Lathan began the night on the bench but an early injury to Kamen Tucker saw him introduced with little more than a quarter of an hour gone and he saved his team on more than one ocassion. Most noteably moments after Swan has scored when he threw his body in the way to deny Village striker Ralph Bean who had already rounded goalkeeper Treadwell Gibbons and had the goal at his mercy.“We knew we had a job to do, it wasn't pretty, but the boys stuck to their task and I'm very proud of them,” said Town boss Jomar Wilkinson. “K'wonde had a great game. We've been wary of his discipline at times but he showed a lot of discipline tonight, he was a lifesaver for us.“Losing Kamen Tucker could have been a big thing for us but we have quality depth at Dandy Town and that showed tonight.”Bean's effort was the closest the defending champions came to scoring in the second half and they were largely impotent as an attacking threat last night. The most action that Gibbons saw was deep into injury time when he got into a shoving match with team-mate George Dyer which resulted in the pair being booked.Town had the best of a scrappy first half in which neither side really found any consistent rhythm and Village looked far from being the dominant force they have been portrayed to be.Much of Village's troubles stemmed from a lack of shape or a significant presence in midfield.Town bossed the early exchanges forcing Village boss Shaun Goater to switch lone-striker Ralph Bean and centre midfielder Kaiwon Dill. That move left Village toothless upfront, but at least meant they were no longer being overrun in midfield.Unfortunately the switch didn't solve their defensive problems and Dakai Grant looked out of his depth at right back for much of last night's game. Too often the Village youngster went charging off up field leaving acres of space behind him free for Damon Ming to exploit.That Ming only managed that on a couple of occasions had much to do with Town's lack of cohesion going forward, but one time he did get free he almost gave his side the lead.Ming cut in from the left, rounded the desperate dive of Village goalkeeper Jason Williams and poked the ball towards the goal. Fortunately for Village Tyrell Burgess was on hand to scramble the ball clear off the goal line.Town might already have been a goal to the good by that stage but Swan squandered his side's best chance of the first half when he headed over from eight yards out.Village had few chances of their own, and a couple of long-range efforts aside the closest they came was when Devrae Tankard raced on to a cut back from Lashun Dill and hammered the ball against the near post.The second half was little better from either side and wasn't until an hour had gone that Village mustered a shot on goal when Grant sent a first time effort into the side netting. Substitute Pierre Smith also went close with a snap shot that flew across the face of Gibbons' goal, while Town's forays forward were almost always brought to a halt by the assistant referee flagging for Raymond Beach being offside.Swan's goal finally sparked Village into life, but it was too little, too late, and the sight of Kofi Dill taking a kick at thin air inside the Town penalty area largely summed up the defending champions' night.“I thought that was our worst performance of the season,” said Goater. “Our ball possession, ball control and ball passing just wasn't there, we got what we deserved,”North Village (4-1-4-1): J Williams; D Tankard, Kofi Dill, T Burgess, D Grant (J Smith-DeShields, 86); J Davis; L Dill (P Smith, 71), S DeGraff, Kaiwon Dill (L Alexander, 90), J Lee, R Bean. Subs not used: M Saunders, M Dill, M Armstrong.Booked: Burgess, L DillDandy Town (4-4-2): T Gibbons; A Lowe, G Dyer, K Tucker (K Lathan, 13), A Rocker; F Frankson (T Manders, 90), S Darrell, J Swan, D Ming; H Wolfe (W Place, 86), R Beach. Subs not used: D Chambers, T Daniels, A Zuill, B Minors. Booked: Swan, Gibbons, Dyer.Man of the match: K LathanReferee: A MouchetteFor more pictures click here