The Manor started this league game in positive mode and given the weather conditions played some excellent attacking football. Their wide players, Dean Frett and Joe May were especially prominent .

The defence was solid and the midfield lively and incisive and up front their was pace and good movement off the ball. Barkingside were being well held and it was no surprise when after 17 minutes the Manor opened the scoring. Dean Frett was sent away down the right flank after a great ball from midfield and his excellent cross was only partially cleared and the ball fell to frontman Jerry Nkrumah who made no mistake, shooting low into the far corner.

The first goal spurred the Manor on even further and their supremacy brought about even more chances but these were spurned. Even so the Manor still stretched their opponents and in the 42nd minute a pin point cross from Keiron King was head firmly into the net , again by Jerry Nkrumah, to make it 2-0.

With half time looming and with Barkingside struggling to make any impact the Manor defence gifted them a goal in the 45th minute to now make the score 2-1. After the interval the heavens opened and Barkingside with the elements in their favour threw everything they had at the Manor. They started to contest the midfield and displayed pace and movement up front that was lacking in the first half. Even so the experienced Manor defence should have been able to handle this, but with the ball zipping and skidding about the opposition soon ran in 2 goals to now take the lead 3-2.

It must be said that a lot of teams would have wilted under in this situation but the Manor tightened up somewhat and pressed forward for the equaliser. A couple of reasonable chances were missed before Richard Simpson, moving up from the back, drove home through a crowd of players to bring the Manor onto level terms, 3-3.

This in fact was the final result, with both sides having contributed to an excellent game. Click here for video sample and to view weather conditions.

Man of the match for the Manor was Joe May whose mazy runs down the flank made numerous openings for the Manor.

Manager Kevin Durrant said, " We should have killed the game off in the first half and it came as a great shock to my team to go from being comfortable at 2-0 to going 3-2 down. None of us are happy with that but we showed great character to come back and get the draw."

Man of the Match

Joe May - whose mazy runs down the flank made numerous openings for the Manor.

Manor Team:

Steve LAMBERT: Jason FOX, Kieran KING; Jamil SYLLA, Joe ELLUL , Liam ALLEN; Junior YIADOM-KONADU, Fabio JESUS, Manley BROWN (Captain), Jakovo Odasi-Ulkueku, Liam MULCARE.

Substitutes: Tom QUERRY, Alinani MOUNTER , Alan EAMES, Beckley LOUKMAN, Antonio YOTOV, Ricardo AMADO.