Kent County League

Division 1 West

Saturday 14th January 2023

Kick Off 14.00 Actual 14.03

Danson Sports 2 Welling Park 2, attendance 15

14’ 0-1

16’ 1-1

77’ 1-2

90’ + 5, 2-2

@ Mayplace Sports Field, 3G Pitch

Perry Street

Crayford

DA1 4RB

No Admission or Programme.

Once again the Met Office forecast of heavy rain for 12 hours up until around 3 o’clock this afternoon was totally off the mark, with a number of my options on grass pitches going ahead, but I’d already decided to play it safe and visit yet another cage set up, this one having spectator access along three quarters of one side. Annoyingly, it has one of those curtain wires across the centre, used to divide the pitch for small sided games. I gave up counting how many times the ball hit it, after it was already at seven before we had even reached halftime!

The match was 5th versus 3rd in the league table, having drawn the reverse fixture 1-1 last Saturday. Welling Park went ahead after fourteen minutes, the striker just beating the ‘keeper to a through ball and poking it past him into the bottom corner. Danson levelled within two minutes with an angled shot into the far corner, which the ‘keeper got a touch to, but couldn’t keep out. It looked like Welling Park had won it when they went back in front late in the second half, scrambling in from close range after a corner hadn’t been cleared, but deep into stoppage time Danson made it 2-2, powering in a header from inside the 6 yard box after a corner was cleared and crossed back into the box.

Anyone travelling here by car needs to be careful of the car park charge, especially if it’s a cup match that might go to extra time and/or penalties, although you can park in the road outside if you don’t mind walking a hundred yards!