Page 13 - Raynes Park Vale vs Beckenham Town 18-04-22

belief and, after seventy minutes
of some pretty poor refereeing
(for both sides) and a yellow for
Jake Gallagher it was, in the end,
H&H who paid the ultimate
price with Max Hustwick being
presented with a second yellow
for a careless challenge/body-
check on Reece Williams-Bowers.
As Hustwick sauntered off at a
speed that suggested he might
be waiting for the Vale defence to
simply fall-asleep Vale saw their
chance to start applying pressure
on their promotion-bound oppo-
sition. Cue 15 minutes of nervous
tension that spilled over into a brief
episode of handbags and, as the
clock wound down and the offcials
managed to still find ways to
embarrass themselves, it became
apparent that, despite having
most of the play and almost all of
Mills stepped up, stuttered and the chances this was not going to
calmly put the pen to Billy Bish- be Raynes Park Vale’s day. A cou-
op’s left. Vale continued to pres- ple of goal-mouth scrambles had
sure W&H all across the park and Vale fans ramping up the noise and
as the whistle blew for half-time the W&H faithful open-mouthed
the home team had managed to and faint but, in the end, the
get two shots on target - one of whistle blew, Sham 69’s anthem
which was the penalty. This isn’t ‘Hersham Boys’ blasted out of the
to detract from W&H’s game. This PA and, finally, the Swans fans
was a good side that had the dis- made a noise to see their Cockney
cipline to know what was needed Cowboys into a well-deserved
and the calm to make sure it was promotion on a sunny Surrey after-
acheived regardless of how pretty noon. There may not have been
it looked.After the break Vale again any lace up boots and corduroys
took to the artificial surface at but no-one was complaining in
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