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LIVE COVERAGE: Tonbridge Angels 1-0 Cray Wanderers - Crane header clinches Cup
TONBRIDGE ANGELS 1-0 CRAY WANDERERS
Kent Intermediate Cup Final
Tuesday 22nd April 2008
Stephen McCartney reports from Betterview Longmead Stadium
Click here to read how Tonbridge Angels won the Kent Intermediate Cup tonight.
PRESENTATION
The jubilant Angels side celebrate their deserved win. The players then walk towards the dug-out for the presentation, to be made by Kent County Football Association chairman Mr Barry Bright. Both managers receive their awards, followed by the match officials, before Cray go up to receive their runners-up medals. The public address announcer urges fans to give them a good round of applause but it will be Angels skipper Sim Johnson, like he did at Stonebridge Road a couple of years ago, who lifts up the Kent Intermediate Cup, after his team-mates receive their winners medals.
RESULT: BOREHAM WOOD 1-2 STAINES TOWN
Staines Town leapfrog over AFC Wimbledon into second place with tonight's win - and Boreham Wood are still involved with Saturday's relegation dog-fight.
RESULT: TONBRIDGE ANGELS 1-0 CRAY WANDERERS
Matt Crane’s bullet header after 33 minutes proves decisive as Tonbridge Angels win the Kent Intermediate Cup. The last time that Julian Leigh’s side won this competition was in 2006 when they won 4-0 at Gravesend & Northfleet.
INJURY TIME
Cray Wanderers go close with a header, from a free-kick taken by their goalkeeper, but the header sails over the bar.
.INJURY TIME
Angels skipper Johnson drills a right-footed shot agonisingly past the foot of the right-hand post during injury time.
RESULT: ASHFORD TOWN 2-1 WALTON CASUALS
84 MINUTES
Cray’s best chance of the game arrives six minutes from time when Humphris’ unleashes a right-footed drive from thirty-yards, which brings a fine diving save, to his right, by Grant, who beats out the shot and prevents a late equaliser.
GOAL: ASHFORD TOWN 2-1 WALTON CASUALS
Jimmy Bottle’s 80th minute goal gives the Kent side the lead.
78 MINUTES
Cray Wanderers' midfielder Scott Manzi is booked.
76 MINUTES
Tonbridge make their second change with Danny Powell replacing Dann.
73 MINUTES
Collins challenges Bradshaw at the far post in the air after Rich picks the ball up in his own half and bursts down the inside left-channel before whipping in a cross towards the far post.
70 MINUTES
Newman drills a right-footed shot from the edge of the Cray penalty area, which deflects past the left-post.
69 MINUTES
Scott Manzi blasts a thirty-yard shot high over the Angels crossbar, despite being in a central position.
68 MINUTES
Nick Rich comes on for Charlie Dix for Tonbridge.
65 MINUTES
Angels goalkeeper Grant makes a smart low save as Cray’s Danny Dean drives a low shot in from the right-hand side.
GOAL: ASHFORD TOWN 1-1 WALTON CASUALS
Ashford Town level courtesy of Mark Lovell after 69 minutes.
63 MINUTES
Crane, who has scored the only goal of the game, almost heads home a second but he meets Newman’s corner with a header, which loops over the crossbar.
SUBSTITUTE
Cray Wanderers make their first substitution as Luke Tanner replaces the injured Jack Brown.
62 MINUTES
Angels’ first shot of the second half is poor, as Rich’s left-footed shot from 25-yards, bounces harmlessly away from the left hand post.
GOAL: ASHFORD TOWN 0-1 WALTON CASUALS
Matt Weston’s 61st minute goal has given the Surrey the lead in this Ryman League Division One South at The Homelands.
54 MINUTES
Jamie Humphris drills a right-footed drive from 30-yards well past the left-hand post for Cray Wanderers - the first chance of the second half.
ATTENDANCE
Tonight’s crowd has just been announced as 191.
SECOND HALF
Tonbridge Angels get the second half under way.
HALF TIME: BOREHAM WOOD 1-2 STAINES TOWN
Staines Town will leapfrog over AFC Wimbledon and into second place if they win this game. Angels chairman Nick Sullivan says “if it stays like that, Boreham Wood have to play for a result (at Ramsgate) Saturday. Angels have to win at Carshalton Athletic on Saturday on final day and have to rely on fifth placed side Hendon and sixth placed Ramsgate not winning to finish in the fifth play-off spot themselves.
HALF TIME: TONBRIDGE ANGELS 1-0 CRAY WANDERERS
2006 Kent Intermediate Cup winners Tonbridge Angels go into the break with a deserved 1-0 lead.
44:30
Newman’s left-footed shot from twenty-yards, from a central position, trickles into Bradshaw’s grateful arms.
HALF TIME: ASHFORD TOWN 0-0 WALTON CASUALS
This Ryman League Division One South game is goal-less at the break.
STARS COME OUT FOR CHARITY
A Tonbridge Angels’ veteran side are playing their Charlton Athletic counterparts in aid for Kent Air Ambulance and the Royal London Hospital on Sunday (3pm). Admission prices are just £4 (adults) and £2 (concessions). Many stars from both clubs, including the current Tonbridge management team, will feature.
36:50
Another chance falls to Tonbridge as they bid to increase their deserved lead. Dann cut the ball back to skipper Sim Johnson, who whipped in a first time cross from the right flank, which was met by a glancing header from Collins, which dropped agonisingly over the bar from six-yards.
33:00 TONBRIDGE ANGELS 1-0 CRAY WANDERERS
Tonbridge Angels take a deserved lead through a bullet header from Crane. The central defender met Alex Rich’s third corner of the game with a bullet header at the far post, which flew into the net from six-yards out.
30:56
Cray’s McCann’s right-footed curler from thirty-yards, sails just over the Angels’ crossbar.
29:40
Cray Wanderers’ striker Jamie Humphris sends a half-volley high over Grant’s crossbar, following a flick on from McCann. It’s very quiet here at Longmead Stadium tonight but the Angels appear to be the better side.
LATEST SCORE: ASHFORD TOWN 0-0 WALTON CASUALS
27 MINUTES
A member of the Cray Wanderers’ management team shouts obscenities from his technical area after Collins’ challenges Bradshaw and is booked by Orpington referee Mr Neil Baker.
WATCHFUL EYE
Angels’ goalkeeping coach Terry Sedge is watching tonight’s game from the directors’ stand.
22:-04
The offside flag is raised, although Angels striker Dann strokes the ball past Bradshaw and into the corner of the Cray Wanderers’ net. Bradshaw takes the resulting free-kick a couple of yards outside his penalty area.
21:14
Cray Wanderers’ first chance on goal sees central midfielder Kieron McCann stab the ball past goalkeeper Martin Grant, but also past the left post.
20 MINUTES
Dominant Tonbridge Angels almost open the scoring, following their second corner of the game. Alex Rich’s left-footed flag-kick from the right was met at the far post by Matt Crane, whose header was cleared beside the left-post.
LOYAL FANS
There is a good contingent of Angels fans behind the goal in the north stand here at Longmead Stadium.
17:24
Tonbridge Angels, whose reserve side play in the Suburban League South, are dominating this Cup Final and central defender Sim Johnson, hoping to lift the Cup later, glances Matt Newman’s right-footed free-kick from midfield, past the post from fourteen-yards, on the right-hand side of the penalty area.
FINAL DAY OF DESTINY
We bring you an EXCLUSIVE interview with Tonbridge Angels chairman Nick Sullivan towards the end of the week as we preview the club’s final Ryman Premier League game of the season at Carshalton Athletic on Saturday - the game that we’re covering (as well as for BBC Radio Kent).
9:58
Collins’ left-footed drive from eighteen-yards, on the right-hand side of the penalty box, brings a comfortable save from Cray Wanderers’ goalkeeper Jack Bradshaw.
3:18
Ashley Dann, the Angels striker, drives a shot against the near post, from an acute angle, after he was played in by his strike partner Collins.
1:37
Evergreen Angels striker Micky Collins, cracks an angled right-footed shot into Jack Bradshaw’s grateful arms at the near-post.
KICK-OFF
Cray Wanderers get this Kent Intermediate Cup Final underway.
19:44
Following the well observed minutes silence, both sides go into a huddle, Cray’s lasting longer than the Angels.
TRIBUTE
A minutes silence was held to honour young Angel, the late Jack Maddams, who sadly died in his sleep at the end of March, at the age of 17.
19:41
Both sides walk onto the pitch, being lead by the four match officials, and will be presented to Mr Barry Bright, the chairman of the Kent County Football Association. The Angels are wearing their traditional all blue strip, with their opponents Cray Wanderers in their normal amber and black.
Tonbridge Angels: Martin Grant, Paul Butler, Terry Brock, Danny Bowles, Sim Johnson, Matt Crane, Charlie Dix (Nick Rich 68), Matt Newman, Micky Collins, Ashley Dann (Danny Powell 76), Alex Rich.
Subs: Charlie Sharman, Matt Cornhill, Jordan Busby,
Goals: Matt Crane 33
Booked: Micky Collins 27, Matt Newman 39
Cray Wanderers: Jack Bradshaw, Aaron Seales, Alan Desmond, Kieron McCann, Jamie Blade, Jamel McCann, Ryan Hay, Scott Manzi, Jamie Humphris, Danny Dean (Dan Assender 82), Jack Brown (Luke Tanner 62).
Subs: Ed Appiah, Ian Jenkins, Billy Justice.
Booked: Scott Manzi 78
Attendance: 191
Referee: Neil Baker (Welling)
Assistants: Paul Sellar (Deal) & Michael Obree (Dover)
Fourth Official: Mr Leigh Austin (Ashford)
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