SCEFL Premier Division

Kennington 1 - 1 Fisher
Saturday 3 January 2026 - 15:00

Kennington 1-1 Fisher
Saturday 3rd January
SCEFL Premier Division

Attn: 94
Scorer: Tom Jones (30 min)

Fisher picked up a point on the road on a brutally cold day at Ashford as they conceded a late equaliser to draw 1-1 with Kennington. Illness caused one change to the starting eleven with Flavio Jumo coming in for Nas Crespo as Fisher looked to improve on their six point haul over the festive period.
Having started recent home games strongly, Fisher were oddly sluggish in the early moments, almost gifting the hosts a goal inside two minutes, with only a fine goal line block from keeper Isaac Ogunseri keeping out Ryan Philpott’s close range effort, after Fishers defence had lost their bearings in quick break down the left. The biting cold did little to help any fluency in the game, not aided by a home player requiring several spells of extended treatment before succumbing and being substituted, with the oncoming Rajan Sahni, often a thorn in Fisher’s side in previous games, causing problems playing off the frontman. Fisher were then almost undone by a long through ball, with Ogunseri coming but then realising he would not get there and back pedalling, relieved when Philpott elected to take the ball down and run for goal allowing cover from Macaulay instead of chancing a lobbed effort.
A switch around of the front three, with Festos Kamara moving out wide on the right, Alex Kozak switching to the left and Rafael Garcia playing down the middle helped Fisher recover from their indifferent start. On the half hour the switch paid off as Don Macaulay played the ball forward down the left where Lorenzo Duncan and Kozak combined to feed Garcia and his pull back allowed Tom Jones to convert from six yards out to put Fisher ahead. Jones had further chances later in the half to double the lead with a shot passing just wide of the post and then in the dying minutes of the half saw a back post effort cleared off the line after good work down the right from Kamara and skipper Jack Gibbons, as Fisher ended the half in the ascendency.
The second half saw an early header from Garcia easily saved by Mant in the Kennington goal, but any hopes Fisher were soon to build on their lead were dispelled on fifty three minutes when Tyron Mbuenimo reacted badly to two swipes on him and threw out an arm with the connection with a Kennington player seen by the assistant referee, leading to his dismissal. A player short, Fisher had little choice but to sit deeper and attempt to soak up the home pressure for the remaining thirty five minutes, looking to play off the counter. They almost profited from the plan on a quick break but Garcia could not quite find the final pass to square to an unmarked Kamara racing alone into the Kennington half. An offside flag came to Fisher’s rescue with a quarter of an hour remaining as Kennington worked the ball to two spare players on the right with the ball fired into the net after the flag went up. Kamara and Garcia ran themselves to standstills in chasing and closing the Kennington back line to stop them building play, but Fisher started sitting deeper and deeper, despite bringing on frozen rather than fresh, legs off the bench.
As the game moved into stoppage time Fisher looked as if they might have done enough to see out the game, but repeated deliveries into the danger area saw the back line retreat inside their own eighteen yard box and a desperate shot on the turn hit a raised Fisher arm from close range with the referee adjudging an unnatural position and awarding a very late spot kick. Ryan Philpott rammed the kick slightly to Ogunseri’s left as he moved to his right and the scores were level with Fisher now having to see out the remaining three minutes with nine after Tom Jones was sin binned for protesting too long about the award of the penalty.
Fortunately, Fisher were able to get the ball high up the field and some sensible keep ball in the top corner allowed them to see out time and collect the point. Given Fisher’s awful record at Homelands which has seen just two points earned in games against a variety of teams at the ground since 2016, a point may have been well received prior to kick off, but from the half time position may be seen as two dropped rather than one gained, despite being enough to move the side up to seventh in the SCEFL Premier Division league table, with several games still in hand over many above them.

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