Thanks to the Bank Holiday, a third new Wessex Premier ground visit and my second chance to watch Brading Town in 3 days. Managed to navigate my way to the ground without any problems although trying to pay with with a ten pound note proved a little more difficult. A quick trip to the bar to gather a drink and some change did the trick and I sat in the sun reading the Non League Paper for an hour before kick off. Horndean’s ground is fenced at one end so you can’t walk all around the pitch but there's a nice open air bench and a small stand next to the changing rooms.
In the first half Horndean scored twice, Brading pulled one back and then Horndean made it 3.1 at half time. In the second half Brading continued with their counter-attacking football and made it 3.2, 3.3 and then took the lead a couple of minutes later with some excellent strikes.
A fighting comeback but with 10 minutes to go I still couldn’t tell which team would come out on top. Then the referee gave a debatable penalty to Horndean which they converted to make it 4.4.
Full of confidence, they dominated the rest of the game and scored a winner a few minutes before the end. The Brading bench went from punching the air to kicking waterbottles and it has to be said that after their earlier comeback they were unfortunate not to take at least 1 point back across the Solent.
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