Tonbridge Angels 2 Wingate and Finchley 1

Match 28/18/1621 - Saturday, 1st September 2018 - Bostik Premier

Tonbridge Angels (2) 2 Parkinson 33 Miles 38
Wingate & Finchley (1) 1 Tejan-Sie 45+3
Attendance: 632

Admission: Season Ticket
Programme: £2.50
Mileage: 38/1,435

At 13:51, 146 miles away at Leicester City’s King Power Stadium, Rachid Ghezzal (hands up if you’ve ever heard of him) scored against Liverpool leaving Tonbridge Angels as the last team in the top seven tiers, ten divisions to concede a goal. Wingate and Finchley were to end that record two hours later but the Angels recorded a somewhat unnecessarily narrow victory to maintain their position at the head of the Bostik Premier League.

The result was blighted by a serious looking injury to Tom Beere, who required on-field treatment for six minutes before being stretchered off but later reports thankfully suggested that the lay-off might not be too long.

Following the delay, Tonbridge went ahead after 33 minutes when a long cross from the left by Jack Parter that was met with a header from Tom Parkinson.

Six minutes later, another cross to which Wingate seemed particularly vulnerable, another header and the home side were two to the good.

This time it came from a corner by Joe Turner that was met by a header from Sonny Miles, for his second goal in consecutive games, a goal machine!

Four minutes into first half time added, Tonbridge’s defence was finally breached when Tommy Tejan-Sie’s shot took a heavy deflection to wrong foot Jonny Henly.

This is a short report due to holiday.