Oh For A Striker To Hit The Goals Home

The old story of Slough’s lack of scoring forwards was emphasised up to the hilt at the stadium on Saturday when the Town made very hard work of beating a very moderate Wokingham combination.

The fine skills of Geoff Anthony trying to do the work of all three strikers was again very apparent. Slough have never been able to give of their best against inferior opposition and that was what Wokingham were. The goal was scored by Brown in the 55th minute.

Wokingham struggling at the foot of the Isthmian League Division One must have looked upon this result as a moral victory and no player was more responsible for this than ex-Slough forward Barry Gaynor playing in the unfamiliar right back position. His job right from the start was to mark the elusive Anthony and this he did well finding time as well to go forward to support his forwards.

The first half was very monotonous, Slough maintained pressure on the Woking goal without managing to give the keeper much to do. In the 35th minute Lane had two very good efforts causing Griffith to make a second, the second causing the keeper to somehow finger the ball around the post for a corner.

In the 55th minute came the only goal of the game, a free cross by Davies on the left was saved by Griffith and Brown was on hand to knock the ball home.

After this the Slough supporters thought that the flood gates would open but it was not to be and apart from a good effort from Lane being well saved in the 75th minute and a header from new boy Alan Davies going just wide in the 81st Slough did not really look like scoring again and it was left to Wokingham winger Ines to make the miss of the match in the first minute of injury time when he sliced the ball wide of a defenceless Slough goal.