Kent Merit Under-16 Boys Cup Final: Bromley 4 Metrogas 2

Bromley remain on course to complete the treble for the second season running - but not without a scare from Metrogas at Whitstable’s Belmont ground on Sunday.

Having won the League Cup three days earlier, Bromley made it a cup double and they can sew up the league title with three more wins from their last seven games.

But they didn’t have it their own way against an excellent Metrogas side, who were left to rue failing to have more than one goal to show after dominating the opening half-hour.

Bromley boss Mike Paye conceded: “I got it wrong tactically in the first 25 minutes. We had to change it and take someone off in the first half which is not nice normally to do.

“But we got two goals before half-time and I’m a bit vindicated.

“We had a tough final against Welling on Thursday, one of the toughest games we’ve ever had, and we’re still on for the ‘double treble’.

“I’ve got a 20-man squad and I had 12 fit players. That’s not making any excuses but we really had to dig in and that’s credit to the whole squad.

“They’ve been unbelievable. I’ve got boys that just won’t accept defeat, you can’t buy that, it’s either in them or it’s not, and we’ve moulded that over the last five or six years and today is the pinnacle of that.”

In the first minute, player-of-the-match George Brooke saw his 20-yard shot deflected over for a corner as Metrogas set the tone. Harry Revell volleyed over from the resulting corner but it didn’t take long for the opener to arrive.

Bromley keeper Harry Haines was caught out trying to play out from the back, and a rash challenge in the box saw a spot-kick awarded. Captain Corey Holden sent Haines the wrong way to give Metrogas a seventh-minute lead.

Holden then picked out David Boateng, whose low shot