Dorking Wanderers kept up their National League South title pursuit with victory over promotion rivals Eastbourne Borough despite being a man down for much of the game.
The odds of saving a penalty have been calculated at 15-20 per cent – so the chances of keeping out SIX are pretty astronomic – but that was the reality in National League South last Saturday when half-a-dozen spot-kicks faced resulted in a perfect completion rate for goalkeepers.
A penalty save from Boreham Wood keeper Nathan Ashmore and three quickfire goals – in what Eastbourne Borough boss Adam Murray described as “five minutes of madness” – turned this game on its head in the National League South.
Four leagues apart and situated over 300 miles away, the gulf between Eastbourne Borough and Middlesbrough is vast, but not insurmountable, as talented young prospect Brayden Johnson has proved.
A CONTEST that promised much, and began brightly, finished in a sort of scrapping shapelessness as Eastbourne Borough – who had led since the ninth minute – clung on in the face of a St Albans City fightback.