Tonbridge (0) 1 Cade 64 (pen)
Margate (0) 0
Att. 471
Entrance: £10
Programme: £2
Mileage: 26/4,834
Another really cold day and unfortunately not a match to divert the attention away from the thought that the biting wind is cutting you in half.Tonbridge’s indifferent home form seemed set to continue against a cash-strapped Margate side that performed a lot better than their lowly league position. A dreadful first half had had very few highlights and Margate’s Ryan Peters managed to produce a low light with a dive and petulant kick away of the ball to get booked when he was the only player showing any quality.
The second half was a good deal better, but that wasn’t hard to achieve. Tonbridge showed much more ambition and after a wasted chance from Fraser Logan, they fashioned a well worked goal from the depths of the mediocrity.
Lewis Hamilton did well to get forward and put in a good cross that was headed on by Carl Rook and Jamie Cade was perfectly positioned at the far post to nod in.
Rook was substituted by Ade Olorunda who wasted a peach of a chance before Margate gave Tonbridge a real scare as the clock ticked down into injury time. A cross across the face of the six yard box saw a couple of unrushing forwards but neither could get a touch.
Frustration then got the better of Curtis Robinson who was dismissed for a crude challenge. Margate had shown a good deal of resilience to their once famous duo on the touchline, Terry Yorath and Neville Southall, but in front of goal they showed why they will be in a relegation fight for the rest of the season.
A poor match, so much so that I think I could award myself the man-of-the-match for managing to string this report out to seven paragraphs!
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