Dave Herbert’s stoppage time equaliser saw Littlehampton Town gain a thoroughly deserved point in this entertaining Pitching in Isthmian South-Central Division clash at the Sportsfield on Tuesday night.
Visitors Harrow Borough must have thought they had done enough to clinch three points after leading for much of the match.
In the first half they set up a two-goal advantage with some clinical finishing, Jack Hutchinson put the finishing touch to a well worked corner routine in the 6th minute before Sakeel Balfour Brown doubled the lead in the 39th minute.
Golds were thrown a lifeline just before the break with a penalty awarded for handball and Herbert’s strike had just enough pace and accuracy to halve the deficit. With restored belief it took them only six minutes of the second half to restore parity courtesy of George Gaskin’s close-range finish.
Hopes they might press on from there didn’t last long as in the 56th minute Dernell Wynter restored Harrow’s lead after a swift break took advantage of Golds overcommitment to attack. The free-flowing nature of the match meant that Littlehampton still had hope they could come back again but as the game entered added time it looked like their efforts would be in vain.
However in the 92nd minute an incisive move down the right fashioned a chance that Herbert finished with aplomb for his second of the game to bring the curtain down on an entertaining and absorbing encounter.