Anger wins game of two penalties

Bohemians ... 1 Bray Wanderers ... 1: JASON BYRNE salvaged a point for a well below par Bohemians in a game of two penalties.

Trailing to Alan Cawley's early spot-kick, Bohemians drew level on 65 minutes when Gary Cronin was harshly adjudged by referee Hugo Whoriskey to have taken down John Paul Kelly.

Such was Bray's anger that Cawley, Cronin and Mark Duggan were booked for protesting, while goalkeeper Chris O'Connor was also carded for gamesmanship in moving the ball on the spot before Byrne sent him the wrong way.

Cawley and Duggan had late chances to win it for Bray, but both fired wide after great work by Pat Kavanagh.

Bohemians were a shambles in defence early on with mistakes from goalkeeper Brian Murphy and then Liam Burns, who pulled down Ger Rowe, gifting Bray the lead after just three minutes; Cawley confidently sent Murphy the wrong way from the spot.

BOHEMIANS: Murphy; Heary, McGuinness, Burns, Powell; Kelly, Rossiter (Brennan, 56 mins), Cronin, O'Donnell (Turner, 82 mins); Byrne, Crowe (Mansaram, 75 mins).

BRAY WANDERERS: O'Connor; Ivory, Doherty, Foran, Cronin; Whelan, Tresson, Cawley, Duggan (Pender, 90 mins); Kavanagh (McCabe, 87 mins), Rowe (Dunphy, 78 mins).

Referee: H Whoriskey (Meath).

© 2008 The Irish Times

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