Accrington rain on Gillingham’s parade but hope for new era holds

Gillingham’s Armani Little (left) keeps the ball away from Accrington’s Donald Love. Photograph: Steven Paston/PA

Gillingham’s American owners have ridden meteorological and ­metaphorical storms this week, on either side of the Atlantic.

So the ­miserable north Kent drizzle and Dara Costelloe’s devastating injury-time winner that dampened the end of Brad and Shannon Galinson’s visit to the UK must be put into some sort of perspective.