It’s a poor, poor day, admits boss Sheridan

ONLY goal difference is keeping Swindon off the bottom of Sky Bet League One after Gillingham’s win made it four defeats in a row for John Sheridan’s men.

Vadaine Oliver scored twice as three goals in ten minutes saw the Gills come from behind to win.

Brett Pitman had put Swindon into a 41st-minute lead by poking the ball past Jack Bonham after he was assisted by Jordan Lyden.

But a brace from Oliver and Kyle Dempsey’s strike helped the Gills to a comeback victory.

Gillingham levelled the contest in the 59th minute after John Akinde’s nodded effort came back off the underside of the bar and Oliver could not miss with a header from one yard out.

Four minutes later, Oliver seized on a defensive mix-up, rounded Connal Trueman in the home goal and slotted in from a tight angle to turn the game on its head.

Dempsey compounded the strugglers’ misery when his 68thminute free-kick took a sizeable deflection which wrong-footed Trueman and rolled into the net to make it 3-1.

Not even a quintuple substitution from manager Sheridan could change Swindon’s fortunes.

The boss said: “It’s a shame that we couldn’t hold on after going in ahead at half-time, clean

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sheets win you games, but the performance, the result – it’s just a poor, poor day.”

Swindon: Trueman, Caddis, Conroy (Curran 77), Broadbent (Odimayo 77), Thompson (Iandolo 77), A Grant (Smith 77), Lyden, Garrick, Twine, J Grant (Payne 77), Pitman. Not Used: Missilou, Matthews.

Booked: Twine.

Goals: Pitman 41.

Gillingham: Bonham, Jackson, Cundy, Tucker, Ogilvie, Dempsey, O’Keefe (Woods 90), Graham (McKenzie 90), Lee (Akinde 52), O’Connor (MacDonald 46), Oliver.

Not Used: Willock, Bastien, Johnson.

Booked: Ogilvie, O’Keefe.

Goals: Oliver 59, 63, Dempsey 68.

Referee: James Bell (South Yorkshire).

Swindon have signed veteran goalkeeper Lee Camp on a shortterm contract until the end of the season.

The ex-Derby, QPR, Nottingham Forest and Birmingham stopper, 36, has signed his second shortterm deal this season.

After leaving Birmingham in August, following the expiry of his contract, Camp was without a club until joining Coventry back in November. However, that was only a two-month deal as injury cover, which expired in January.

Having sat on the Sky Blues bench for 12 games, he has now swapped a relegation battle in the Championship for another in League One.