Tamworth 1 Forest Green 1
Forest Green boss Steve Cotterill insisted his automatic-promotion chasing side did enough to come away with a win after they settled for a Boxing Day point at a fog-laden Tamworth.
Kyle McAllister’s sumptuous strike seven minutes before the break had earlier sent Rovers to the top of the as it stands table, but a last-gasp Dan Creaney goal denied the Nailsworth side three points.
A frustrated Cotterill told BBC Radio Gloucestershire’s Billy Hunt: “The referee never gave us anything all game today, I thought he was very poor today.
“We never got anything, just disappointed with the end bit. The lads gave everything, I don’t have any problems with that. We have just had one moment right at the death there, we did enough for me, we did enough to come away with a good 1-0 win today.”
Pictures: Peter Barnes
Earlier, Rovers faced a kit fiasco and were forced to don their training tops after the referee insisted their pink kit clashed with the red of Tamworth’s, Cotterill said: “It was 10 days ago when the sheet was sent into him about us wearing pink, he would have saw that and then all of a sudden before the game today, he doesn’t want us to wear our away kit because he thought it was a clash.
“So, as soon as that happened, I thought ‘oh dear, we are in danger today’, all of a sudden, we have had to mark up our training T-shirts with some numbers.
“He said that he ‘couldn’t differentiate between the pair of them’, I think you are in trouble if you can’t do that. We have to wear t-shirts, it was either that or we had to wear their shirts where they had a white change of kit. We have just got to make sure that we are better at that and everything is nailed down before we even turn up.”
STAT ATTACK
Tamworth FC: Singh; Crompton, Digie, Hollis, Cockerill-Mollett; Fletcher (Tonks 66), Milnes (Sundire 89); McGlinchey (Creaney 74), Morrison (Ponticelli 46), Enoru (Williams 78); Wreh.
Subs not used. Phillips, Finn.
Forest Green Rovers: Ward; Long, Inniss, Moore-Taylor, Robson; Sercombe, May, Bunker (Osadebe 54); McAllister (Cardwell 82), Quigley (Doidge 82), Knowles (Tozer 82).
Subs not used; Searle, Lavinier, Omotoye.
Referee: Paul Marsden.
Attendance: 1,721, including 318 FGR travelling fans
Next up: Rovers welcome Mark Cooper’s Yeovil Town to the New Lawn on New Year’s Day, 3pm. The Glovers will feature former Forest Green midfielders Charlie Cooper and Matt Worthington.
