So Far, Yet Now We're So Close!

IRATE joint-boss Lee Picton admitted South Shield shad not warranted their first-leg lead against Cole shill and insisted: “We were a million miles away.”

 

- Andy Mitchell

Andrew Stephenson plundered a 90th-minute winner to settle a frenzied tie in which Coles hill twice hit the woodwork and had an injury-time penalty appeal waved away.

Jordan Nadat found the net for Town on the stroke of halftime, converting at the second attempt after Gio Dainty had recycled a half-cleared corner.

It was the least the Colemen deserved after carrying the greater threat in the first half but Shields came back out like a team that had endured Picton’s wrath immediately after the interval.

David Foley scrambled in after Stephenson’s blast across goal had been parried by Paul Hayward within two minutes of the restart and the visitors looked like running riot for a short spell.

Michael Richardson missed the pick of the chances, nodding wide Craig Baxter’s cross from point-blank range, before Coleshill regained their composure.