Tonbridge 1 Kingstonian 0

Match 48/09/800 - Saturday, 27th February 2010 - Ryman Premier

Tonbridge (1) 1 Booth 9
Kingstonian (0) 0
Att. 429

Entrance: £10
Programme: £2
Mileage: 26/5,417

Match Report

Whether there is any fact to the potential investor story at Tonbridge or not, the club is slowly emerging from its relegation threat by its own means within the resources presently available. Second placed Kingstonian were Saturday’s visitors to Longmead and a single goal victory for the hosts was a third win in four games.

A superb 30 yard strike from Paul Booth after nine minutes ultimately won a game in which Tonbridge had more than enough chances to win comfortably but were clinging on at the end despite the Surrey side going down to 10 men with half-an-hour left on the clock.

Perhaps Kingstonian had looked at their relative league positions and felt that this was going to be an easy three points because their whole performance was tetchy with several feuds seemingly going on. Lee Minshull became the target of the away support after a spat in which he had little fault and there was a further altercation between the bench and a Tonbridge supporter following a foul and injury to one of their players.

A bad miss from three yards denied Kingstonian an equaliser and hot on its heels came the dismissal of Lee Hall for a poor challenge on Minshull.

Dartford loanee Adam Burchill was introduced and two good chances fell his way both of which were disappointingly spurned.

The final whistle saw another Kingstonian player shown the red card with the protests continuing as the officials made their way back to the changing rooms. On the strength of this performance a greater discipline, on and off the pitch, is going to be needed should the visitors make the end of season play-offs because they are not going miss out on promotion with any good grace.