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Tonbridge
held sway for the next twenty five minutes,
but struggled to create much in the way of
clear chances. King continued to deal
comfortably with anything that came his way,
despite defensive clearances being
repeatedly given back to Tonbridge and
keeping Tooting on the back foot.
Surprisingly, before Angels equalised in the
70th minute, it was Alan McLeod who came
closest to scoring with a neat chip from a
Hamlin cross that just beat the crossbar.
Ex Terror
Scott Kinch did not endear himself to his
old fan base with a petulant display of
tumbling and a nasty late lunge at Dave King
before being substituted (as opposed to
being carried off). However, it was the
introduction of a Terrors sub, Andrew Howell
- back from injury, that seemed to steady
Tooting after the Tonbridge goal. His
cross to the back post was headed into the
path of Joe Vines by the superb Tom Graves,
but the skipper could not control the
direction of his shot and he blasted it into
row Z from close range. Brother Paul
toiled away, setting up the tireless Simon
Parker for a shot with a precise cushioned
header and then exercising Worgan with his
own attempt five minutes from time.
As injury
time kicked in, Howell was brought down by
the increasingly nervous home defence and,
rather like the first goal, they panicked to
clear it. This time it did not need a
Tooting boot to do the damage as the
unfortunate Starkey could not get out of the
way of a goal line clearance that rebounded
off him into the net.
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