On an evening when Hennessey became the third Welshman to reach 100 caps for his country, a youngster at the other end of his career, Rubin Colwill, scored his first senior goal to cancel out Tomas Soucek’s opener for the Czech Republic.

Bale arrived from the bench for the final nine minutes and forced a fine save from an awkward angle but it is fair to say he has ample credit in the bank.

It was always going to be impossible for this friendly to live up to anything remotely close to the joyous scenes here six days ago, when Bale’s double put Wales within a game of a first World Cup since 1958, but while the concourses were empty by comparison, a lively draw was played at an engaging pace in front of a crowd that departed with Friday’s draw in Qatar at the forefront of their minds. Brennan Johnson was particularly lively and came close to notching a winner.

A visibly emotional Hennessey was withdrawn to a warm ovation after an hour and after departing the pitch he made his way along the home dugout, shaking hands with backroom staff and substitutes. At the end of a long line Bale was waiting to give him a bear hug. He was never going to miss Hennessey’s special occasion. The pair have become best friends since meeting on Wales Under-21s duty and both described their close relationship as a “bromance” in the buildup to this game. At full time Bale was quick to push the goalkeeper in front of the Canton Stand to ensure he basked in his achievement.

“It was really nice for the supporters at the end to show their appreciation,” the interim Wales manager, Robert Page, said. “He is an absolute legend and deserves all the plaudits he is going to get. His best mate, Baleo, made sure that a fuss was made of him and it was an honour to be part of it as well.

“Baleo wanted to be involved on his best mate’s big moment. It was vice-versa when he got his [Bale celebrated 100 caps in November], and Gunts [Chris Gunter, last March].”

The Czech Republic’s Tomas Soucek (centre) celebrates scoring. Photograph: John Sibley/Action Images/Reuters

Page said he would be “like every other Welsh supporter out there watching the draw” with a playoff final against either Scotland or Ukraine primed for June. Page made wholesale changes – Hennessey was the only player to keep his place from Thursday’s victory over Austria – but the system remained the same, Johnson and Rabbi Matondo playing either side of Colwill, the teenage Cardiff forward. Aaron Ramsey was omitted from the squad altogether and Ben Davies was absent after returning to Tottenham as a precaution. “We have to show respect to their clubs,” Page said.

“The most important game was against Austria. Job done. We didn’t need to risk Aaron. I made that decision not to have him and Joe Allen in the 23 [-man squad].”

Before kick-off Hennessey was presented with a gold cap and a commemorative award pitchside by his childhood hero, Neville Southall, and the Football Association of Wales president, Steve Williams. Beyond Hennessey’s special occasion, the game also raised funds for the Disasters Emergency Committee to help Ukraine, with the team making a donation and any FAW profits from staging the game will go towards the humanitarian appeal.

If the thought of Wales rousing themselves after Austria felt ambitious, this was probably the last trip the Czech Republic wanted, days on from losing their World Cup playoff semi-final in Sweden.

Hennessey’s first start for Wales came against the same opposition, across town at the Millennium Stadium in 2007, against a team spearheaded by Milan Baros and Jan Koller, and he made a smart save here before the visitors opened the scoring. Onrej Lingr was first to Jaroslav Zeleny’s cross and an alert Soucek smacked the loose ball home from near to the penalty spot.

Johnson was electric down the right flank and twice went close to nudging Wales in front in the second half. It was no surprise the Nottingham Forest forward laid on Wales’s leveller two minutes after Soucek struck. Johnson latched on to Gunter’s floated pass, eased past Tomas Petrasek and cut the ball back for Colwill to expertly sweep into the corner.

“The problem we have is keeping up with him,” Page said of Johnson. “Brennan has a great future in front of him.”

The claimants, now in their 40s and 50s, say Bennell, now 68, abused them when they were playing schoolboy football for teams he coached in north-west England between 1979 and 1985.

Bennell was a scout for City during that time and the eight men argued the relationship between Bennell and City was “one of employment or one akin to employment”.

The men had argued that City were vicariously liable for the abuse.

But Mr Justice Johnson said: “The connection between the abuse and Bennell’s relationship with MCFC [Manchester City football club] is insufficient to give rise to vicarious liability.

“The relationship gave Bennell the opportunity to commit the abuse, but MCFC had not entrusted the welfare of the claimants to Bennell. It follows that it has not been shown that MCFC is legally responsible for Bennell’s acts of abuse.”

He also dismissed the claims on the ground that they were out of time, saying although there was a “good explanation” for the delay in the claims, they were brought too late for there to be a fair trial.

City bosses denied that claim, saying Bennell was a local City scout in the mid-1970s but not between 1979 and 1985.

Bennell, who is serving a 34-year jail term after being convicted on five separate occasions of child sexual abuse offences against 22 boys, also denied being linked to Manchester City during the 1980s but told the judge he had “always used and exploited” his previous connections with City for his “own benefit”.

David McClenaghan, partner at Bolt Burdon Kemp solicitors, who represented the eight men, said they were “shocked and dismayed” at the decision and would be appealing againt it.

He said: “Despite the judge accepting that there was a connection between Bennell and Man City and that he was scouting for them, coaching their feeder teams and helping to organise trial games for them, the club has escaped liability on a technicality.

“We do not accept the decision as being correct and will be appealing the decision in the higher courts where we are confident we will secure the correct and just result.”

The eight men claimed damages for psychiatric injuries, with six of them also claiming damages for loss of potential football earnings.

Bennell, who used to live near Buxton, Derbyshire, had abused schoolboy footballers after inviting them to stay at his home. Giving evidence in the civil trial he said that several of his convictions related to six of the men making claims against City but he denied abusing four of them.

Prior to the start of the trial, City said it had launched a compensation scheme in 2019 offering victims of “non-recent child abuse” payments “equivalent to those awarded at court”.

It said in the current case the survivors had chosen not to use the scheme and issue court proceedings, which meant the matter was taken out of the club’s hands and passed to the relevant insurers. A spokeswoman said the decision to call Bennell to call evidence was not taken by City.

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