Parkway were punished for their wastefulness in the first half as Swindon equalised just four minutes after the restart. Michael Elias-Fernandes had a touch of fortune that the deflected low cross rebounded into his path but made no mistake in sweeping the ball home from 12 yards to bring life back into the Supermarine.

The away side weren’t level for long as Parkway hit back with the perfect response after 56 minutes. Scarff watched Garside’s high looping corner all the way and headed home from the back post into the bottom right corner to score his first goal in Yellow.

However, a moment of madness from keeper Sowden-Bird led to a fortunate Swindon freekick on the edge of the box and once again Elias-Fernandes pounced on the chance, firing his shot through the wall and wrong-footing Sowden-Bird to drag his side level for 2-2.

The comeback was then completed by Swindon as the inform Elias-Fernandes toyed with debutant Tylor Love-Holmes before clipping a ball to the back post which was headed back across goal for Harry Williams to poke into the back of the net in the 73^rd minute.

The chances and decisions just simply wouldn’t fall in Parkway’s favour in the second half, which was epitomised when Supermarine’s Nicholas Peare fortunately avoided a red card for a high and late challenge on Garside.

Further questions were asked when referee Luke McFarlane waved away bellowing calls from the Bolitho faithful for a last-minute penalty appeal after the ball struck an outstretched arm in Swindon’s box.

But despite Parkway relentless pressure for that craved late equaliser, Swindon’s defence stayed resolute as the full-time whistle went.

Speaking after the match McPhee said:

“I’m gutted. The players are devastated and obviously massively frustrated as a group of people because across the 108 minutes we were by far the better team for massive parts of that game.”

“Looking back two of their goals should have been disallowed but I felt the big key decisions just didn’t go our way today. Some of those decisions are quite obvious in what they should be but it’s football.

“We’ve got to be in a position where we’re not too disheartened, we’ve got to be hurt and scorned by what’s happened today but we’ve got to use that as fuel to go again Tuesday against Bracknell Town and make sure we’re not in that position again through learning from every experience and moving forward.”