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Forest Green Rovers v Chester City,Saturday 14th October,2000

Nationwide Conference League

Forest Green  1  v 1 Chester City

Foster (48)                Fisher (57)    Attendance:943

It wasn't the best of performances or best of results but Chester put on a fighting display to come back to get a point at Forest Green,when it could quite easily have been nothing.

Forest Green where no exception to what has become the norm in this league that every team  we play is going to give 110% ,as an ex-league club beating us would be a major achievement to most teams and Forest Green could quite easily have done it with a bit more luck.

On a cold day in the Cotswolds it was the home team who always looked the liveliest and looked much more likely to score going forwards.

The first half saw very little action with both defences on top neither team really tested the opposite sides keeper and a few half chances fell here and there but nothing really to write home about,it was the second half when the action really started.

Forest Green came out much the better side after the break and it didn`t take long before the inevitable happened and they took the lead,Adrian Foster stepped up to slot the ball past keeper Wayne Brown from close range to send the home fans balistac and to put his team one up.It was Fosters sixth goal of the season,but the lead didn`t last long, 9 minutes infact before a good cross from Mark Beesley on the left caused chaos in the Forest Green area where Steve Whitehall was unmarked,he hit a crisp volley that was to hard to handle for Rovers keeper Steve Perrin who had suffered alot of stick from the city fans for being on the fat side. He spilled it straight into the path of Neil Fisher who had the simple task of chipping it over the helpless keeper into the empty net.

Forest Green where unlucky not to go 2-1 up late on when a header went narrowly wide from a corner and they also had a shot hit the bar.Chester themselves could and should have snatched it at the death.Another Fisher cross caused mayhem in the Forest Green area,Steve Whitehall was again there this time with a free header from 6 yards out,surely it was in we thought but some how between the keeper and the defender on the line it managed to stay out and was cleared to safety.

It was a fair result in the end the end but City have got to step up a gear against sides like this if they are to keep in contention with the leaders.

ForestGreen:Perrin,Cousins,Norton,Clark,Hatswell,Burns,Bennett,Drysdale,Hedges,Foster,Meechan

Chester:Brown,Moss,Woods,Lancaster,Doughty,P.Beesley,Carden,Blackburn,Fisher,M.Beesley,Whitehall

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