For seventy minutes at Halden Park on Saturday, Port Avery Rovers looked like a team that had spent the week reading about their new stand rather than training in front of it.

They were two goals down by half-time, the second a header that their keeper, Danny Rourke, watched sail over him with his hands on his hips. The travelling supporters, about three hundred of them under the away end's leaking roof, sang the song about the ferry anyway.

The last twenty minutes

Then Kieran Asante came on. The nineteen-year-old, who works mornings at the fish market and trains in the evenings, scored with his second touch, a low shot from the edge of the box that went in off the post. Eleven minutes later he crossed for Sam Whitlow to head the equaliser.

"I told him to run at them and not to think," said the manager, Gail Pennock. "He doesn't think. It's his best quality."

I told him to run at them and not to think. He doesn't think. It's his best quality.

The draw keeps Rovers fourth in the Southern Combination, two points off the play-off places. The new east stand opens for the home game against Ashby Town on Saturday, kick-off three o'clock.