Village side Wakering started their Ryman Division One North away campaign in great style with victory in this tempestuous affair in Middlesex.

While Rovers had three players cautioned, Yeading saw six names go into the referee's notebook and, in an incident which would surely have figured in Trivial Pursuit questions for years to come if it had happened in the Football League, substitute Bobby Behzadi was sent off without ever being involved on the field of play.

The Yeading man got involved in a first-half melee that spread to the benches and got his marching orders.

There were goalmouth chances galore but, after Yeading's Keith Newberry had wasted a seventh-minute opening by shooting wide when it looked easier to score, Rovers took a 12th-minute lead.

A 25-yard free-kick was struck home in glorious fashion by central defender Terry Howard, the former Leyton Orient star who has made such a major impact at the Burroughs Park club since signing in the summer.

Published Wednesday August 21, 2002

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