Football: Ten years ago today - Kevin Gall marks his arrival

TEN years ago today and the Yeovil Town faithful were optimistic that at long last the Glovers would achieve what had seemingly appeared to have been an impossible dream – promotion to the Football League.

There were so many moments during that momentous 2002-03 season that fans can look back on and say that was the time when they began to believe.

February 8, 2003, was definitely one of those moments as it heralded the Yeovil Town debut for a player who would become such a key cog in the final push for glory….Kevin Gall (pictured).

A crowd of 4,738 arrived at Huish Park to watch Yeovil play host to Kettering Town which at the time saw the table-topping Glovers take on the basement boys.

A 4-0 scoreline may have seemed comfortable, but it did not do the Glovers justice as they dominated proceedings from start to finish and could have had a much more impressive result.

Defender Colin Pluck (who the following season changed his name to Colin Miles) opened the scoring in the 26th minute and that was how it stayed until the interval.

But the big moment arrived in the 64th minute when Kevin Gall, newly arrived at Huish Park after signing just a couple of days before from Bristol Rovers, emerged from the bench and replaced Andy Lindegaard.

He needed just five minutes to make his mark when he prodded the ball home from close range to make it 2-0 – little did supporters know then that there would be many more goals to come Gally’s way between then and the end of the season.

Kirk Jackson made it 3-0 to the Glovers in the 77th minute and then Michael McIndoe wrapped things up with five minutes to go with Yeovil’s fourth and final goal.

It had been an excellent performance and the Yeovil fans went home thinking that the potential was there for something big.

And new kid on the block, Kevin Gall, had certainly made himself an instant hit with the fans. He went on to make a total of 13 Conference appearances for Yeovil that season and scored 13 goals.

It would be unfair on the rest of the team to suggest that perhaps things might have been different had he not been drafted in by manager Gary Johnson because Yeovil were on a roll by the time he had arrived and were more than capable of winning the title, but Gally certainly helped to turn on the style and make their Conference-winning success even more emphatic.

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