14/4/99: Ryman League Division Three
Tring Town 0 Aveley 3
A Tring side severely weakened by injuries and absentees fell to another defeat in last night's game and missed the chance to get off the bottom of the table.
It was fortunate that Tring were playing Aveley, probably the most inept side in front of goal in the division. The visitors dominated the early stages of the game and missed a string of good chances. After 5 minutes Lee Brown was at full stretch to tip over a header from Ian Summers. On the half-hour Aveley missed the best chance of all when Jay Martin's shot hit the post and Summers put the rebound wide from point blank range. In the end Tring had to put the ball in the net for them. On 34 minutes Dave Kearney got a glancing header to an Aveley corner and the ball bulleted into his own net.
Tring put on a much better show early in the second half, putting the Aveley goal under heavy pressure. The closest they came was on 54 minutes when a long range shot from Kearney took a nasty bounce in front of keeper Steve Wallduck, but he produced a great save to keep it out. The game was put beyond Tring when they conceded a second goal on 62 minutes, and again it came from a corner and looked like another own goal.
Aveley continued to miss a number of very presentable chances, but eventually added a third in the final minute when the ball was given away to Neil Cannon, whose first shot was blocked by Brown, but the rebound fell kindly to present him with an unmissable tap-in.
Team: Brown, Bainborough, Turner, Lewis, Condon, Dale, McKane, Kearney, Williams (Kinsley), Crofts, Bray.