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| Saturday, 4 January, 2003: Suburban League. Fleet Town Reserves 1-5 Tonbridge Angels Res When things go wrong for the opposition it is nice to be able to take advantage. Fleet's keeper was forced to leave the field with a thigh strain after fifteen minutes with the Angels already in front and this may have affected the score but not the result against an elderly Fleet team for whom the ball was an occasional distraction. Jack Pittaway got the Angels off to the ideal start with a typical strike after 11 minutes. Fleet's keeper then retired to be replaced by an outfield substitute and the home team settled into a strategy of intimidating the young visitors into a defeat. Class tells, sometimes, and this time it took the youngest Angel to demonstrate the fact on 24 minutes. Collecting a loose ball outside his own penalty area, Mike McKeown moved forward into space left vacant by a puffing Fleet midfield. Arriving at a knot of home players on the halfway line he was battered off the ball, but with great determination recovered possession. Pittaway and Bryce were running the Fleet defenders ragged, and McKeown moved forward again. Somehow the home defence opened up in front of him and the youngster placed a screaming thirty yard shot that dipped wickedly into the far corner of the goal. Fleet Town opened the second half with a determined effort to get back into the match and scored with a free header inside the six yard box. But the Angels remained well on top and Lee Cooper was unlucky to have a shot cleared off the line in a goalmouth scramble that could easily have resulted in a penalty on 53 minutes. As the match moved into the last half hour it was clear that the Angels were superior not just in ability but also in fitness. On 71 minutes Drew Crush scored with a simple tap-in after Fleet's keeper failed to hold a John Sinclair shot. Four minutes later another long shot, this time from the trialist, curled into the top corner and the same player ended an excellent debut by setting up John Sinclair with a deserved goal from a far-post header. Report by: Robin Peterson. |
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