Wednesday, 18 April 2018

Tonbridge Angels 0 Harlow Town 0

Match 121/17/1571 - Tuesday, 17th April 2018 - Bostik Premier

Tonbridge Angels (0) 0
Harlow Town (0) 0
Attendance: 235

Admission: £6 Senior
Programme: £1.00
Mileage: 38/8,100

A few games back I disregarded Gillingham’s goalless draw as the worst game of the season with a single line blog entry. Sadly, another game similarly lacking in entertainment came along all too soon.

I won’t treat Tonbridge with a one line entry but can assure you that I will not be taking too much of my readers’ time.

The season’s end cannot come quickly enough for the Angels as Steve McKimm is having to send out patched up teams with, on this occasion, five Under-19s featuring.

Luciano Osbourne, making his first start, filled in at left back despite spending his season with the Development team as a number 10. But, until his substitution after 79 minutes, acquitted himself well in the circumstances.

The game was one of very few chances the best of which fell to Harlow’s Thomas Page whose downward header after 57 minutes bounced up and over the bar. The damp pitches of a couple of weeks ago might well have meant it not bouncing so high.

Tonbridge supporters had to wait until the 85th minute for a meaningful effort on goal when Dominic Welsh’s cross found Nathan Elder but his header was comfortably saved by David Hughes.

To draw on the positives it was a pleasantly warm evening given the winter we have endured and the returning Tom Parkinson got another half-hour on the pitch. Small mercies indeed.

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