Page 9 - Raynes Park Vale vs Horley Town 23-04-2022

the game restarted and to try and
get a deserved third goal. Howev-
er, the next moment of inter-
est came with a hotly disputed
handball claim in the Vale area.
The officials, it’s fair to say, were
not having their best day and the
shout could have probably gone
either way but, with full-time
approaching, the shrill calls
from the visitors seemed more
in hope and desperation and, as
the man in black waved the pen-
alty shouts away, it fell to the
Beckenham’s, Joe Healey, to turn
on the ref, in the heat of the
moment to lambast him for his
‘error’. Thankfully, the details of
Healey’s appeal were lost but,
as they resulted in a straight
red card for the Beckenham
man, it is probably fair to assume
that he wasn’t wishing the ref a
and put a sweetly weighted lob Happy Easter. Either way, it was
over his head and into the Town academic. After a couple of Vale
goal. Williams-Bowers, wearing substitutions – Aiden Brown on
a smile as bright as the after- for Williams-Bowers and Josh
noon sunshine, sped off to Gallagher on for Louie Downey
celebrate with the Vale manage- - the referee, probably thank-
ment and team. Sadly, the visiting fully, blew for full time. There was
coach took this opportunity to just time for another bit of infan-
exchange some childish words tile handbags from the Becken-
and made to threaten a punch ham coach and it was, after all,
toward the celebrating goal-scor- Raynes Park Vale who had come
er – actions that were wholly to party.
unnecessary and did no credit
to the visiting team or fans. MOTM: Billy ‘The Bish’ Bishop
Vale, however, shrugged off the
antics on the touchline to have Match report: E.I. Addio