Wednesday Nov 09 2005 00:00
A surprisingly large number of Centurions, given our current form, faithfully followed their team up to The Grove, where in the past we have never come away with anything like what our performances have merited. But today the lads were well organised, strong in defence and but for a couple of nerve tingling misses from Gareth could have waltzed off with all 3 points.
Dominating the first 20 minutes, we should have been 3 up but our current uncertainty in front of goal continued to haunt us. Leading at half time with Kev Halliday working his usual magic off a 35 yard free kick, it looked as if we might finally break that Grove hoodoo.
The ref had other ideas, sending Gary Horgan off in a bizarre decision after 57 minutes. And, though we conceded the equaliser on 66 minutes and were under the cosh for most of the half we could well have won it on 73 when Gareth Hopkins reacted quickest when the Yeltz keeper spilled the ball from a cross.
Agonisingly, from 2 yards out, Gaz hit it instead of just rolling it in and sent the ball over the bar. Maybe on the overall play a draw was a fair result but I travelled back down from the Black Country genuinely feeling we let a well deserved win slip away today.
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