Tonbridge Angels (0) 0
Slough Town (0) 1 Tenconi 48
Attendance: 956
Admission: Season ticket
Programme: £3 Not purchased
Mileage: 38/7,239
Football is not a perfect science, random events within a game can produce an unlikely result and sometimes you don’t get what you deserve, but when you see 90 minutes that goes totally against the grain of what you expect from your club, it left be baffled.
Probably, safety is just one win away and possibly, 38 points is enough but this game in the context of the remaining fixture list was seen as the big opportunity to put all the ifs, buts and maybes to bed but a performance that nobody saw coming left Tonbridge with work still to do.
Slough Town arrived in that middle of the table position that allows a certain relaxation that can go either way in terms of performance but, in truth, they didn’t need to be very good.
For the first time this year the temperature climbed above 20degC, supporters basked in the sunshine with a beer in hand, and for the entire first half they would have been better served remaining at the outside tables with a further pint. Slough won a series of corners and Jonny Henly was forced into a decent save from Lee Togwell after 18 minutes and that was that.
Injuries to Craig Braham-Barrett and Tommy Wood saw the introduction of Doug Loft and Aaron Smith-Joseph for the start of the second period and things quickly got worse for the Angels as Slough opened the scoring within three minutes of the restart. Central defender Joe Dandy skipped the challenges, such as they was, of four Tonbridge defenders before pulling the ball back from the byeline for Alfonso Tenconi to fire in a crisp strike at the near post.
A response from the Angels was required, but none came and Slough controlled the game with ease, to the point when, after 67 minutes, the visiting management were so comfortable they felt able to withdraw the best player on the pitch Aaron Kuhl.
Two attempts from Joe Turner that were comfortably saved by Jonathan North was all that the half, or rather the afternoon, had to offer for the healthy attendance of 954 apart from the cheerful contingent from Slough.
Results elsewhere, apart from a stunning comeback from Welling to earn a draw at Eastbourne, meant that no serious damage was done, but as Sonny Miles later related: “If we play like that for the rest of the season, we won’t get another point.”
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