28/10/98: Ryman League Division Three
Tring Town 1 Camberley Town 1
Tring are still wondering what they have to do to win a league match after once again being robbed by a goal deep into injury time. Seven minutes of stoppages had been played when Camberley Town scored their equaliser in last night's match.
The visitors made all the early running, but Tring's much-improved defence meant that the closest they came to scoring was on 25 minutes when Jason Sills headed just wide from a free kick.
Tring had occasionally threatened on the break, but too often squandered a good position. However on 28 minutes they took the lead through a classic counter-attack. A clearance from their own penalty area was headed on by Peter Owen to Victor Scott, who still had one defender to beat, but flicked the ball over the defender's head before running on to strike home from the edge of the area.
Camberley were often guilty of some sloppy defending, and on 33 minutes they gave the ball away in their own half to Owen, who crossed to Scott at the far post but he snatched at his shot and blasted well over the top.
Tring led going into the break and almost increased their lead three minutes into the second half from another incisive break. Roger Jashek fed the ball to Scott, who found Owen on the far side of the area, but the keeper produced a great save to keep out Owen's shot. From the resulting corner the keeper dropped the ball, but Owen fired the loose ball over the bar.
However, the pressure began to build up from Camberley and Sills was twice denied by a save from McLoughlin after a slick close-passing build up on 60 minutes, and by a miraculous goal-line clearance from Paul Turner five minutes later after McLoughlin had come out for a free kick but didn't collect. There was little respite for the Tring defence against a furious onslaught from Camberley, but they looked like holding on. In the dying minutes Tring had two chances to seal the game. Firstly Owen blocked a clearance by the keeper and collected the loose ball, but with two defenders between him and the empty net put the ball wide. Then Wayne Gladdy got on the end of a cross from Warren Lay but headed just wide.
At most five minutes of stoppage time should have been played, but it was well past that when Camberley won a corner. McLoughlin came for it but could only palm it away, and Tim Sills blasted home the loose ball to get Camberley out of jail.
Team: McLoughlin, Lay, Evans, Turner, Jashek, Greenwood, McKane, Jones, Owen, Siddons, Scott (Gladdy). Subs: Williams, Coombs