Gravesend raised their game and Jimmy Jackson came closest to breaking the deadlock after 71 minutes when he found room inside the box to fire in a left-foot shot which came back off the woodwork.

BBC: Gravesend 0-0 Farnborough

The largely anonymous David Silva provided a cross for City team-mate Kolo Toure to fire wide from inside the box and Tevez and Johnson cut in from the left only to see their shots respectively saved and blocked by an offside Milner.

BBC: Man City 0-0 Birmingham

And it was Accies who made the breakthrough in the eighth-minute when Offiong met Mensing's cross to fire home from inside the six-yard box.

BBC: Dundee United 1-1 Hamilton Accies

Earlier, Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon presented Rivera with a mounted fire hose nozzle, and New York City Fire Commissioner Sal Cassano gave the game's greatest closer a mounted call box during a brief ceremony inside the ballpark.

WSJ: Mets rally to beat Rivera and Yankees, 2-1