AFTER netting goals at Highbury, Maine Road and Old Trafford, Dennis Bailey can add Walshes Meadow to an ever-growing list.

The former QPR and Birmingham City striker may be 37 later this year but he still showed a clean pair of heels to break clear of his marker to give Stourport Swifts the lead for the second time at home to Telford United.

The Conference club did level late on but Bailey showed enough to have caught the eye of player-manager Tim Langford.

He must be hoping the marksman puts Swifts ahead of a number of other Dr Martens League clubs chasing his signature.

Bailey was not the only veteran on show with Langford making it a 72-year-old partnership in attack before resting his limbs for the final half-hour.

And it was the manager who set-up Stourport's opener after just five minutes, darting past two Telford defenders before being upended in the box for Jan Mulders to calmly drill the penalty into the bottom corner.

Some loose marking allowed the visitors to level two minutes later when Stourport old boy Paul Moore threaded a ball through to the unmarked Gary Martindale who fired home despite keeper Rob Clarke getting a hand to it.

Langford, who had been a favourite at Telford during his time there five years ago, hit the upright on the half-hour.

But it was the Shropshire side that finished the half the stronger as Moore shot wide with just the keeper to beat while Steve Palmer had an effort tipped over the bar.

Torrential rain made the second period a damp and dismal affair apart from the introduction of exciting Swifts substitute Jaimie Stainer who looked set on beating the Conference side single-handedly.

But it was another of Stourport's replacements in Paul Edwards who provided the cross for Bailey to steer home on 76 minutes.

Hopes of victory were dashed just four minutes later when Kevin Jobling crashed home a 25-yard free-kick leaving Clarke wrong-footed in the Swifts goal.

STOURPORT: Clarke, Mulders, Wright (Laker 81), Charlton, Davies (Dearlove 58), A Nicholls, Giddings (Sandhu 81), Fletcher (Stainer 52), Bailey, Langford (Edwards 58), Gardner.