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RAYNES PARK VALE 23|24 UP THE VALE

MATCH Date SAT 30TH SEPT 2023 Within one minute of the restart On 77 mins Badshot’s Nas simply stopped playing football
and contented themselves with
Regragrui latched onto a long
a well taken curling effort from
REPORT Kick off 15:00 Attendance 181 nestled into the back of the Billy Bishop and slotted home line. In reality, they were doing
ball from Billy Oram, ran past
Badshot’s Baback Dehghani
passing the ball along their back
Raynes Park goal and with it went
to put the score at 1-4 and even
Raynes Park a favour.
the belief that the home team
then Vale’s day wasn’t over. An
Competition
points. Instead Vale imploded.
saved by Badshot’s Cawdron
SOUTH-CENTRAL would return to snatch three 80th minute penalty for Vale was
and, Brad Sweeney’s attempts
RAYNES PARK VALE 1 BADSHOT LEA 4 A straight red for dissent saw
to wrest the ball from the keeper
Louie Downey heading for an
was enough, in the referee’s
Raynes Park Vale came to this blocked to the momentary relief narrative was about continue. early shower in the 51st minute
eyes, to warrant a second yellow.
fixture with justifiable optimism. of the home fans only for Kai A disallowed Vale goal on 22 and five minutes later the visitors
Failures to launch in the FA Cup, Allsopp to blast the resulting minutes raised the spirits further notched up another decent goal, With minutes to go, Vale now
The Velocity Cup and the FA loose-ball into Billy Bishop’s but, in all honesty, this was this time from Anuar Ceesay, down to nine men and Callum
Trophy had not deterred Josh goal. So far this could have been probably the last time the men in the top right corner. Vale 1 – McAllister running himself into
Gallagher’s team from going a familiar tale of Vale letting in blue looked like they would Badshot 3. the ground such was his efforts
stratospheric with 5 from 5 in opponents go ahead, only for reset the balance between these to defend playing against the
the Isthmian South Central, the South Londoners to come two teams. The Badshot front two-man advantage, Badshot
including some coming-from- storming back and when, nine three repeatedly out-paced
behind demolitions that had minutes later, an excellent Harry Vale’s midfield and defence and
fans clamouring for more. Last Cawdron save saw the ball go although both teams went in
season’s spectacular display saw behind for a corner that was duly at half-time level it was visiting
Vale turn over almost all of their converted by Jerry Nnamani with fans who had most reason to be
CCL opponents in their march a bullet header to put Raynes optimistic.
to the title. But ‘almost’ wasn’t all. Park level it all seemed as if this
Of the CCL clubs that Raynes
Park couldn’t break down were
the team that they beat into 2nd
place last season and the team
that they faced at Grand Drive on
this mild Saturday afternoon.
Spirits were high in the stands
where there was a belief that RPV
would be able to end the bad run
against this bogey team. It was a
belief that was short-lived.
In the ninth minute a shot from
Badshot’s Lamin Ceesay was

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