National League South 2nd April 2022
The battle of the inconsistent:
Dorking 5 points from the last possible 12 and Slough also hot and cold. Lovely to see a female referee Kirsty Dowel and two male assistant referee‘s Paul Evans and Peter Conn all doing a fine job throughout the 90 minutes.
We’re off, Dorking jink across the pitch, simple movement, no shutting down or any urgency from Slough and when the ball was passed out to Muitt who had time and space to pick his spot, He puts it beyond keeper North‘s left hand post into the bottom corner – 1-0 Dorking after a mere 43 seconds.
Slough, no time to dust down, were soon 2-0 down as Philpot fires home on 9 minutes after good play down the flank, but again poor marking. 26 minutes Dorking’s Rutherford intercepts a back pass, he is met by keeper North who sends him South. Penalty awarded opportunity missed by Moore. On 30 minutes Muitt beats the offside, time to change his boots and he wishes he had as the ones he had on skies the ball way over. Slough meanwhile show glimmers of hope rather than positivity as they escape going in at half time only 2-0 down – are there any reasons for Dorking to beware of what may come ?
Two minutes into the half the reply to the question above is simply” NO” There is a corner for Dorking, everyone jumps then everyone watches as Gallagher has time to slam no 3 high into the roof of the net. It’s a mere 3 minutes for the screwdriver to tighten even more as again a watchful defence see’s Rutherford fire neatly home as they stand and claim offside – we look to the linesman – no flag, certainly no defence and certainly in trouble. 4-0 to Dorking. The clouds are coming in, darkness looms then on 55 minutes McShane fires a long range effort that hits the bar and Jason Prior(who replaced Rutherford two minutes earlier) taps in no 5.
It’s sad to say with Slough Town’s motto “Serve with honour” was certainly being questioned by the Slough reporter who was sitting next to me, quietly going ballistic. For the remaining duration of the game, although Slough still endeavoured to compete never got any momentum going to cause any worries what’s so ever. On the Dorking side of things, they constantly appeared as if they were at the Easter fair with all their ducks sitting in a row – luckily for Slough they ran out of bullets !
Closing comment : food for thought – Dorking have had their five a day and look refreshed, however for Slough– you can always put the wheels back on – they fell off today !
F/T Dorking Wanderer’s 5 Slough Town 0
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