City bore draw is end for Kings

Apr 27 2001 by Neil Turner, Daily Post

Chester 0, Kingstonian 0

CHESTER City and Kingstonian played out a goalless draw at the Deva Stadium last night that had few moments of entertainment for City's smallest league crowd for many years.

Both sides missed penalties in the second half and Chester were guilty of glaring misses.

The first half contained precious little goal-mouth action, with the best chance falling to young striker Mark Beesley who forced a good save from former Carlisle United goalkeeper Jimmy Glass.

Chester were awarded a penalty after 54 minutes after Chris Blackburn had been brought down in the area by Wingfield.

Ex-Rochdale striker Steve Whitehall stepped up and fired the effort towards the corner of the net, but Glass Ð diving to his left - pushed the ball onto the post, and the striker couldn't take advantage of the loose ball.

Twelve minutes later the Kings were awarded a spot-kick after Carden had been harshly adjudged to have felled Winston.

However, City's substitute keeper Phil Priestly made a tremendous save to deny Colin uckett's well struck spot-kick.

Tempers became frayed in the dying stages, and referee Mr Smith was forced to make a clutch of bookings.

The result means Kingstonian are relegated from the Nationwide Conference after a three year tenure.

After the match the Chester boss Graham Barrow was unable to comment to the media about the game because of a ban that has been imposed on him by the Chester  directors forbidding him to speak to the press.

CHESTER CITY: Brown (Priestly 46), Woodyatt, Doughty (Ruscoe 59), Lancaster, Guant, Fisher, Carden, Blackburn, Wright, Whitehall, M Beesley (Haarhoff 75). Subs: Moss, Berry.

KINGSTONIAN: Glass, Beard (Akuamoah 46), Luckett, Allan, Stewarts, Harris (Green 72), Patterson, Pitcher, Winston, Boyce, Wingfield (Jones 72). Subs : Bass, Blake.

REFEREE: Mr A Smith (Castleford)

ATT: 834.