26/8/00: Ryman League Division Three

Tring Town (0) 2 Ware (0) 0
(Kinsley 52, og 75)

Tring recovered from their midweek defeat to Bracknell to record their second league win from three games as two second half strikes were enough to see off Ware. Tring showed only one change from the previous match. Goalkeeper Graham Milner, who impressed in his debut for the reserves last week, was brought in for the injured Billy Davies and gave an equally faultless display.

The match was, for the most part, a hard-fought midfield tussle with goalmouth action at a premium. Ware keeper Martin Coomber wasn't extended until 15 minutes, when he tipped over a header from Alex Kinsley. Tring's best chance of the half came on 40 minutes when Mike Hemingway beat a defender on the right and sent over a curling cross which just eluded two Tring players before Lee Johnson came in at the far post and stabbed the ball wide.

Towards the end of the half Tring won a series of corners and frequently sent the ball flashing across the face of the Ware goal, but couldn't quite get the decisive touch. At the other end, Ware's best moment came when Ricci Crace took on and beat Clive Denniss, but Denniss got back to tackle Crace just as he was about to pull the trigger.

All of Tring's goals at home this season have come when they are attacking up the slope, and so it proved again in the second half. On 52 minutes they made the breakthrough. Marcus Davis shielded the ball on the edge of the area before slipping it through into Kinsley's run. Kinsley controlled the ball with his first touch then pushed it past the keeper with his second in another display of expert finishing by the youngster who kept up his goal-a-game record in the league.

The heads of the Ware players seemed to drop after that, and they rarely threatened to get back into the game. Tring doubled their lead on 75 minutes from a free kick just outside the box. Davis floated the ball to the far post where Johnson came in and appeared to force the ball home, although he later admitted that it was a Ware defender that put the ball into his own net.

The second goal killed off any lingering threat from the dispirited Ware side and Tring had their second win in the bag.

Team: Milner, Underwood, Denniss, Bartlett, Johnson, Boad, Hemingway, Sangster (Groves), Davis (Heywood), Kinsley, Beamish.