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Match Report

WALTON & HERSHAM 1

RAYNES PARK VALE 0

CCL • Sat 9th April 2022 • Elmbridge Xcel Hub, Walton upon Thames

was not the team that rolled over the visiting fans, RPV appeared
so weakly to their fellow South to be just getting their sights in
Londoners a week before. It was before opening the scoring - it was
true that Walton & Hersham didn’t only a matter of time and in the
have to do much. In the stands first ten minutes Nes Bellikli pulled
After the embarrassing capitulation fans were discussing what was a shot wide and an exquisite Louie
to Balham, the Vale faithful who required for the home team to get Downey lob was just tipped over
travelled to The Hub were hoping the promotion they were after the bar by the W&H keeper. Unfor-
to see some sign that a Force 10 and one thing was clear - a win tunately this exercise in one-sided
hairdrying from boss, Josh Gal- would see them go up. For Raynes football hit the buffers on the 14th
lagher, had fired up the team from Park this was a display of what the minute when the referee awarded
SW20 enough that, this time, they’d team can be - Reece Wiliams-Bow- The Swans a penalty so soft he
at least turn up to the game... Of ers battling with the W&H defence could have put a Flake in it and
course no-one knows if the walls like a man possessed, Seanan called it a 99, but, and this was a
of the Grand Drive dressing room McKillop playing like a rock, Nes lesson that the Vale defence need
really did echo to the sound of the Bellikli turning the opposition in- to learn - contact in the area is al-
gaffer going full postal but what side-out. For twenty minutes the ways going to be claimed and will
WAS clear very early in this cru- silent W&H crowd watched as, to often result in a spot-kick. Harry
cial encounter with was that this the sound of constant noise from Continued...
Continued...