Football – Share of the spoils as City stay top of SPFL 2

There was to be no change at the top of the Ladbrokes League 2 on Tuesday night as Edinburgh City and Peterhead shared the spoils  in a 1-1 draw in front of over 450 fans who braved the cold at Ainslie Park. 

Jason Brown opened for the visitors before Liam Henderson equalised shortly after. City spent the final 10 minutes a man down after Andy Black saw Red after a second yellow.

The opening forty five minutes were largely spent with the ball in the air and neither keeper being forced into any notable action in a half that was as much for the purists as it was for an excuse to nip off for an early cheeky chicken curry pie.  

Following the half time oranges and undoubtedly a couple of encouraging exchanges in the respective changing rooms, the teams came back out looking for an opening that they hoped would be the catalyst to go on and win the game.

Cometh the hour and the hardy bunch of Blue Toon followers had reason to celebrate when Jason Brown nipped in front Calum Antell between the City sticks to fire home from close range.

That lead was to be short lived however and just nine minutes later, the home support were on their feet as Liam Henderson came up trumps to guide the ball beyond Greg Fleming to set up a tense final quarter of an hour at the home of The Spartans FC. 

FT: Edinburgh City 1-1 Peterhead  

Edinburgh City: Antell, Thomson, Black, Balatoni, Laird, Smith, B. Henderson, Rodger, Taylor, Shepherd, L. Henderson. SUBS: Morton, Beveridge, Hall, Kennedy, Watson, Lumsden, Galbraith.

Peterhead: Fleming, Brown, Dunlop, Stevenson, Brown, McAllister, Leitch, McLean, Dow, W Gibson, Lyle.  Subs: R Gibson, Eadie, Ferry, Kavanagh, Home, McCracken.