The Angels continued their promising start to a new season in the top flight, five second half goals ensuring a miserable night for our visitors from the South Coast. Four goals for Jon Main made the game a personal triumph for the popular striker.

With Scott Kinch still suspended, Rob Kember and Alex O'Brien anchored the central midfield with Fraser Logan and Scott Gooding in wide positions. "Razor" Powell and Jon Heath filled the full back places, with Main and Andy Martin the strikers in a 4-4-2 formation.

Main got Tonbridge under way with the first of his four goals on 12 minutes, beating the offside trap and running through to force the ball past 'keeper Rikki Banks and seemingly just over the line before Gooding made sure following up. Jamie Lawrence fluffed a great chance to level matters soon afterwards, sidefooting wide from eight yards after Andy Alexander won a free kick in the air, but the Angels generally controlled the game and deserved their narrow half time lead.

Tonbridge came out with renewed purpose in the second half and dominated throughout. The pressure told on 53 minutes, Main adding a fine second from Martin's inviting layoff after incisive play from Powell and Gooding set up the opening. More bad news followed for Worthing when the influential John Robinson succumbed to an ankle injury suffered late in the first half, and lunging tackles brought yellow cards in quick succession for Danny Davis, Alexander and Tarkan Mustafa. The Angels further extended the lead when the visitors were reduced to ten men with 15 minutes left, Mark Knee being dismissed after keeping the ball out with his arm in a scramble following Gooding's header against the bar. Main beat Rikki Banks from the spot, then kept his cool to repeat the job after a retake ordered for encroachment.

The Rebels pulled one back when Referee Whitton allowed Stafford Browne to take a quick free kick, the ball whistling beyond Aaron Kerr before Tonbridge were able to organise defensively. Any chance of a rally was however quickly snuffed out when Marc Cable hacked down Main after a mazy run into the box, the Tonbridge striker dusting himself down to beat Banks cleanly from the spot once more.

With the visitors now in disarray, Cable made a superb saving tackle to deny sub Luke Piscina a fifth, before late strikes from Gooding and sub Adam O'Neil completed the rout and sent Angels fans home ecstatic.

Main will rightly take the plaudits from this game, but this was a confidence boosting all-round team performance which gave Kerr a very quiet night in the Angels goal.

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