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Rebels exit the play-offs


Tooting 2 Worthing 0

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Published Date: 28 April 2008
TWO goals in the first 11 minutes sent Tooting into the Ryman League play-off final at the expense of Worthing on Tuesday.
Full-time: Tooting 2 Worthing 0. Despite a battling second-half performance, Rebels have exited the Ryman League Division 1 South play-offs at the semi-final stage.

71mins: Disaster for Rebels. Andy Alexander has been sent off for two yellow cards. He reacted to a foul on Ben Andrews by Joe Vines and got his second booking much to the disgust of Rebels' fans, who felt Vines should have gone for his challenge on Andrews.
Alexander had earlier been booked for a 35th-minute foul on Jason Pinnock.
Still 2-0 Tooting.

65mins: Still 2-0 Tooting but Rebels have come right back into the game. It should be 2-1 but Jamie Brotherton somehow shot against the bar from just four yards. Scott Kirkwood has also had a header from Jerahl Hughes' corner saved.
Lively striker Scott Murfin has replaced Mark Pulling.

Half-time: TOOTING 2 WORTHING 0. Rebels will be glad the half-time whistle has gone. They have settled a bit since conceding twice inside 11 minutes, but could be further adrift.

Worthing keeper Rikki Banks has denied Vines a hat-trick, and made an outstanding save from Allan McLeod's free kick. Vines again went close when he just failed to reach McLeod's low cross (think Gazza in Euro 96).
Rebels have hardly tested Tooting keeper Dave King. He has only had to make a regulation save from Scott Kirkwood.

11mins: TOOTING 2 WORTHING 0. Vines nets his second with a towering header at the back post into the far top corner from Alex McLeod's cross.

5mins: TOOTING 1 WORTHING 0. Paul Vines has tapped Tooting into the lead from close range, after Jason Pinnock and Jon Henry-Hayden combined down the right.

The team news is in and Mark Pulling has replaced the injured Ben Johnson in Rebels' starting line-up.

Worthing have also named dual-signed Wick striker Scott Murfin on the bench, along with Nko Ekoku, who has not played for Worthing since early in the campaign.

The rain has been pouring down here all day, and there's a lot of surface water but there has been no pitch inspection, so it's game on.

But, that's not the news from Cray. Their semi-final with Met Police has been postponed owing to a waterlogged pitch.

Worthing: Banks, Keehan, Alexander, Axten, Andrews (capt), Benn, Hughes, Akehurst, Brotherton, Kirkwood, Pulling. Subs: Murfin, R.Pook, Ekoku, Rogers, Dodd.

Tooting: King, Hamlin, Hartburn, Bouadji, Vines, Hunt, McLeod, Pinnock, P.Vines, Henry-Hayden, Byatt. Subs: Hutchings, Francis, Abbey, Green, Lopez-Dacruz.

Keep up-to-date with all the latest scores and match action right here during the game.

If Rebels win, they will travel to Cray Wanderers or Metropolitan Police in the final on Saturday.

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