FINALLY, JIMMY’S GOT HIS JUSTICE
BOSS Jimmy Dean’s desire to get Peterborough Sports promoted has been burning away ever since March 2020.
The Turbines sat top of Southern League Premier Division Central when Covid stopped play and Dean’s sense of injustice never truly went away.
Perhaps that was why his side seldom looked like being denied, despite conceding two second-half penalties. Sports made the early running and led when Dion Sembie-Ferris provided the cutback for Mark Jones to ghost in with an assured first-time finish into the roof of the net. Coalville gradually grew into the game with Luke Shaw proving a menace and Tom McGlinchey grazing the top of the crossbar before half-time. Crowd trouble delayed the second half by more than half an hour and killed Coalville’s momentum, Josh McCammon doubling the deficit by dashing through a crowded box and applying a cushioned finish after
a corner had been kept alive at the far post.
Coalville offered little until a flurry of corners which saw Crook block Kee’s point-blank shot with his legs, thwart Stephen Towers and paw away a ricochet off one of his own defenders.
Richard Jones was responsible for the explicable handball beyond the far post that led to the 73rd-minute penalty which Crook saved low to his right. McGlinchey was then levered to the floor seven minutes from the end with Crook’s similar save rubber stamping the most forgettable afternoon of Kee’s career.
“This has been three years in the making,” said Dean. “We were top two years ago and it was null and void after 33 games, this was the culmination of all of that.
“We were desperate to fi nish the game. The problems at halftime gave us a little wobble, it was not ideal but we just about got the job done.
“I thought we deserved to win. We certainly played better football on the day.
“It is massive. I was in tears at the end and I make no apology for that. I think we were robbed by the null and void decision, we were just written off as if it meant nothing and I certainly carried that into this game.”