By Matthew Panting

Depleted Welling were denied a morale-boosting derby win over Bromley on Tuesday night after floodlight failure with just three minutes left to play.

The Wings, who could only name 11 players plus manager Jamie Day who was attending the birth of his third son, had produced one of their best displays of the season to come from behind with spectacular goals from Luis Cumbers and Jack Parkinson (pictured).

Just as they looked to be moving back to within a point of the Blue Square Bet South play-off places, the lights went on and after a 17-minute delay referee Phil Knight was left with no alternative but to abandon the game.

While the pylons at the Danson Park end of the ground came back on, a fire in one of the pylons at the road end meant there was no chance of a restart and the fire bridage were still at Park View Road more than one hour after the game was called off.

Without Day. the injured Loick Pires, Jack Oberstellar, Joe Healy, Andy Sambrook and the suspended Jordan Johnson, Welling were down to 10 players until the league allowed them to register academy rookie Leon Farrell.

Forced into a 3-4-3 formation, Welling had to take the game to Bromley and it paid off despite their failure to convert early chances.

Lee Clarke's close-range effort was deflected over, Andy Pugh's strike was ruled out for offside and the pair both went close again in the first 23 minutes.

Bromley scored with virtually their first attack when Tony Finn's near-post corner was turned in by Warren McBean for his first goal since early November in the 36th minute.

But Welling were level three minutes later when a long free-kick was headed clear only for Cumbers to brilliantly volley home a left-footed effort from 25 yards.

There were a number of impressive performances for the Wings, including Farrell who never looked out of place, Liam Bellamy and Loui Fazackerley, who had to do more defending than attacking.

Graeme Andrews nearly sliced into his own net early into a more even second half. Finn was denied by keeper Mitchell Walker and then put the rebound over.

What looked like being the decisive goal came 11 minutes from the end. Andrews' ball forward was collected by Pugh, who intelligently picked out Parkinson. The Wings skipper took one touch before firing in a brilliant effort past keeper Craig Holloway.

McBean headed high and wide and Harry harding missed the target from the edge of the box as Bromley never looked like finding an equaliser.

But then the lights went out in the 87th minute to deny the Wings and the Football Conference will almost certainly rule that the game has to be played again.