ARCHIVE NEWS: SEPTEMBER 04 to DECEMBER 05   JAN 06 to APR 06

30 April Southport FC v AFC Southport at Haig Avenue Kick Off 11am ends 8-2 with Dicko and Matty McGinn both getting hat-tricks.

30 April I have read on the Aldershot forum were their supporters coach got pelted with a variety of items resulting in windows being cracked yesterday by the little boys hanging around outside the ground. They are becoming an embarrassment to the club and need getting rid of quickly. It is not the first time this season that it has happened and if we are not careful there is going to be a serious incident. I walked past them as the Aldershot coach was getting ready to leave and frankly they are a disgrace to Southport FC.

29 April Home v Aldershot Kick Off 3pm-let's hope the town respond and turn out in numbers to celebrate the achievement of staying up. It should be a great day.

It wasn't bad spoiled by the result a bit but frankly, who cares! A great turn out of 1709 sees us go down 1-0 to a penalty from Darren Barnard in the 69th minute. It was Liam's favourite referee and I don't think he enamoured himself any further in Liam's books judging by his reaction at the end.

The attendance moves into 15th place in our NL list. The season's aggregate of 62,437 has only been bettered once, in 00/01, when the total was 64,222. The average home gate of 1244 was our fourth highest. In our top 20 home attendances we have only won 3 times.

We have now played 3967 NL games with 1178 in the league. My personal total of Southport games seen is 848.This season's mileage 6882, it is more next season already without knowing who will fill the final two places although we are playing 2 more away games.

Finally for now, Millster was "outed" today (photos are available to the highest bidder) and responded in great style, keep the blog going Milly, the banter is great. Thank you for your support to the Trust and your kind words, if we can get you on board then I may even up my target figure!

27 AprTrust in Yellow – Public Launch Trust in Yellow the supporters’ trust for Southport Football Club are having their official launch on the 27^th April 2006 at the Grandstand Bar, Haig Avenue at 7.30pm.The trust, are celebrating their achievements in setting up the trust and would like as many supporters of Southport Football Club and the surrounding community to attend the evening. The trust hopes its prospective members will embrace Trust in Yellows’ development by acquiring annual membership and share issue of the trust at £10.00.Amongst the activities for supporters to partake in are an auction for the unique opportunity to be the manager of Southport FC for a game against the supporters’ team on 30^th April 2006, voting for the JPG News trust player of the year and a guest of honour to officially declare the trust open. A free buffet has also been kindly sponsored. Officials of Southport Football Club, influential figures around the town and legends of the club past and present have been invited. The trust committee hopes many people will attend the evening and make the evening both an enjoyable and memorable occasion. Trust in Yellow believes this is the beginning of a prosperous relationship between Southport Football Club, its’ supporters and the community of Southport.

What a superb night, well attended with the highlight for me the chance to speak with THE man, Eric Redrobe.

26 April Still buzzing after last night, the train journey back from London was quite pleasant after the win!

from Grays manger Mark Stimson:"Credit to Southport they are scrapping for their lives and they've come here and got the point they needed to stay up. I think they and their supporters celebrated that more than we did when we won the Trophy and I've said that to the players"

25 April Away at Grays Athletic-Kick Off 7.45pm, a day in London trying to get to as many grounds as possible via bus, train and tube before ending up at Grays is planned for today. What a superb couple of days, I will be doing a full Away Days report covering the Hereford and the Grays trips in the next couple of days but for now let's just relax knowing we are staying up. I hope all the moaners, all the deserters and all those that wanted and still want Liam out just sit back and take notice of this. If he had been dismissed do you think Mike Walsh could have turned it round like last time. Food for thought! My own view is that the guy should win manager of the season. No other manager in the league has worked under the constraints that Liam has and to have us finish outside the bottom two is a feat of great magnitude. The 70 Southport fans in attendance were probably split 50/50 between travellers and exiles. I have said it before but it never ceases to amaze me that virtually every away game I go to I see a new face wearing the yellow of Southport, where do they all come from? We, myself and my daughter, travelled back into London with CFORD 6 who had to get a train back to Southampton, Yellosoul who had a meeting in London and five other exiled Sandgrounders.

24 April Fulham v Wigan and I will be among the Fulham fans!

The Altrincham saga looks like dragging on for a while longer yet with talk of it being three weeks before the appeal is heard. It has certainly proved a major talking point. I still maintain that I feel desperately sorry for the Altrincham fans and that the punishment is harsh but all the clamour for the Conference Board to be replaced and John Moules being made the scapegoat is over the top. They have rules in place for a reason and if someone flouts them they have to abide by them, what choice do they have. My concern remains that Alty were a third party in this and some element of discretion needs to be shown. It will run for a while yet I think.

A superb report from Alan Jones of sgb and photo's from Hereford are here

23 April From the Herreford fans:-

"I would like to say well done on getting a point we were terrible and didn't deserve our goal.
I thought your fans were fantastic the way you got behind your team and sang only wish our fans would do the same.
any neutral at the game would think it was southport in the playoffs not hereford.
Good luck for next season.
hope that we wont be playing you but think that we probably will"

"Best performance of the day - your fans"

"Attendance was 2547, seemed to be a fair few supporters from Southport, and boy were they noisy! Walking through the cattle market going towards Tesco's after the match had finished, I could still hear them chanting away"

"Thats the type of support we were giving about a month ago"

"sorry but that was support today from southport and imagine what their support would be like in our position"

22 April Away at Hereford United. What a result a fully deserved point which gets us ever nearer to the target and what a goal it was, it may have me changing my nomination for Goal of The season. FULL UPDATE SUNDAY but just a quick word on the support today, absolutely brilliant, well done to the Hereford 100 and the 82 who made the journey by other means. It was another battling performance but this time we seemed to have a bit more guile and had a few chances to score. The late goal was sweet, we have conceded so many this season that to actually score one ourselves was a nice change. It was only the second goal we have scored in the last 10 minutes this season, the other was by Dales in the 2-1 defeat at Cambridge. The gate of 2547 was the 81st attendance of over 2000 that we have played in front of in NL football and our 9th this season. It was our 1600th Non League match in all competitions. The ref today Mr Shoebridge has officiated in 3 of our games this season all of which have ended in draws, Kidderminster and Tamworth were the others. It was a good day all round, the coaches went down well with no problems encountered and everyone seemed to enjoy the day. Let's hope we can move forward with coaches for each match next season. If we stay up matches at Weymouth, Torquay possibly, Crawley et al will certainly put some mileage on the clocks.

One thought I did have during the match yesterday is that it is quite sad that that sort of atmosphere couldn't be recreated at Haig Ave because of our ban on drums, come on Board think again!

21 April What an amazing reaction to the Alty situation from around the country. Over 4200 have signed the petition as I type. It's always interesting seeing other peoples views which do seem to vary according to were you are placed in the league! I still think the decision will get overturned by the FA who have already said Alty have no case to answer. I just hope they make their minds up quickly.

Great letter from Peter Rigby in the Vis today. I always wonder why people who write negative things about the club to the paper remain anonymous. It says a lot doesn't it!

20 April Altrincham are docked 18 points subject to appeal. I genuinely feel sorry for them and I am sure that after the appeal common sense will be shown. This is harsh beyond belief and yes, rules are rules but there must surely be some degree of listening to what has actually lead to the error being made. If this was us I would not be happy. I don't want to profit from others misfortune. It could be for the second season running Forest Green survive due to other's wrong doings, what does this say to the outsider about Non League football. The much overused confguide word of Tinpot springs to mind!

Probably THE biggest decision ever taken and the Conference Official website at 23.03 is still not carrying the story. 5 Live, Sky have all run it but The Conference, no way!

19 April Scarborough v Grays 0-3 at half time and as I type Radio York are playing The Only Way Is Up!!!! Finishes 2-7 with Grays sounding very impressive.

18 April Away at Burton Albion Kick Off 7.45pm-new ground for me and I guess most Southport fans. The final score of 0-0 says it all, it wasn't pretty but it's a point closer to survival. As soon as I saw the team I wished I had access to the Internet to get a bet on a 0-0 draw. The end justifies the means they say and it did tonight we got what we went for. A lovely ground, my ideal football ground at this level, 3 sides of covered terracing and a stand that runs down the full length of the pitch and segregation so you can get all the away fans together under cover always adds to the atmosphere. The pitch was shocking, I couldn't believe it when I arrived to see them watering it and when I went in there was standing water everywhere, I was in early and it had mostly drained away by kick off but it was poor. £12 entry with £2 for the programme. An excellent away following for a midweek game of around 130 included a few of our southern exiles which was great to see. All in all another one of those games you watch if you want a cure for insomnia and any neutral in attendance would I am sure have left before the final whistle but when it's your team battling for their Conference future you take the point. Home for 11.45. Just a final word on the referee, he was excellent, I hardly noticed him and a couple of times I had my book out he just issued a stern warning and got on with it. No cards and reffed with a smile, a pleasure to watch!

From "Tamworth Fan" on Confguide forum "Burton gave all they could,it seemed, Southport went with the intention of not conceding- a 0-0 was always on the cards. Southport are staying up on that performance, albeit only just and not especially pretty.

If I was a Southport fan tonight, I'd be proud of the spirit with which they have dug themselves out of the relegation hole, and even though they crossed the line between being a physical team and a pub-side full of cloggers tonight at times, they have tonnes more spirit than many of my team have shown this year.

In all the years of watching TFC,this has ranked as the most dismal in many ways. Seeing the Port grinding out results like this just makes our season feel even more dismal.If we stay up on a technicality this year, its undeserved, to be very honest. We couldnt fight our way out of a paper bag on our own at the moment-feels harsh to say that, but its how I feel tonight.

Anyway, well done Southport. You aint pretty, but you're doing your fans justice"

Sums it up for me.

Looking at the potential make up of the leagues next season, if we stay in the Conference we face a total travel mileage count of around 8400 miles. If we go down it would be around the 3800 mark.

17 April Accrington v Scarborough, Hereford v Tamworth, Forest Green v Exeter, Morecambe v Altrincham. On paper they look very tough fixtures for all our rivals! Do you think Andy Todd may have scored that one to get a contract with us next season!

Table after today's games:

Table before today's games:

16 April Reading the Burton forum, little "jonny" seems to think we are taking two, possibly three coaches to Burton. Can someone advise him that the coaches are going to Hereford not Burton please.

Now I know my intense dislike of Liverpool is well known but if anyone can tell me that watching that dross on TV is entertainment then I would be surprised, aren't they BORING and yet third in the Skyship, yawn!

15 April Home v Gravesend & Northfleet 1-0 with a decent gate of 1310.

If there are many more games like that I will end up in the coronary care unit. Why do we have to do things the hard way, Phew! Three very valuable points particularly in view of the other scores today. You really can see this going right down to the last few minutes of the home match against Aldershot can't you. I hope there will be plenty of First Aiders in attendance.

I have added Altrincham back into the relegation mix I thought they had enough points but the way things are going at the moment who knows. I really felt 40 would be enough but not so sure now.

THE HEREFORD 100 is achieved.

Canvey really do look as though they are bowing out of the Conference if their forum is to be believed. The BBC are also running the story now and what at one point seemed nothing more than a rumour or idle threat by Jeff King looks as though it may be true after all. At least this is their choice so you have to admire them for taking this step. If Scarborough, Crawley and Altrincham's troubles continue who knows what will happen. I love football at this level but when this sort of thing is going on you do lose credibility with those who prefer their football in the Skyship.

Congratulations to Accrington on winning the league a well deserved triumph.

14 April Troubled Canvey beat Kiddy 2-1 in front of just 621 fans, 200 below their average, I'm sure Mr King will not have been impressed with that turnout after all the problems this week.

13 April Trust In Yellow meeting at The Railwaymens Club 7.30 start-Excellent meeting.

12 April From the Millster blog: can see this going down to the wire the way we are playing. Tonight we were workman like and deserved the points against a poor Woking side who looked like they had been on the pi** all weekend in Blackpool.
Not much doom tonight, only to say that seeing Rob Urwin chewing his bottom lip when things were dicey in the second half, reminded me just how miserable one can actually look!
Keep the Trust in Yellow going Rob, you never know I may even become a member!
My man of the Match - Mark Roberts, unflappable and dependable.
P.s. Get Brabin on the books for next season whatever league we play in Watson, the guy's a born leader and been the difference so far in the run in.

Great stuff, but I wasn't chewing my bottom lip, I had a cold sore and it was painful!!!!! I'll put your name down on the prospective TIY members list, I'll take your details on Saturday if you reveal yourself to me although I think the net has narrowed it down to one of two. Just thought, I bet the other is Billy Austin!

I am currently second in Matthew's prediction competition on sfc.com. The problem with this is that all season I have been predicting scores that I don't either want or think will happen so I have gone for another defeat on Saturday just as an extra insurance.

11 April Scarborough v Tamworth ends 0-0 but Alty have an excellent 4-2 win at Dagenham.

10 April Home v Woking 7.45pm We really are entering the last chance saloon now. When was the last Monday night match at Haig Ave? I can't remember too many. I know there was one back in 1972/73 v Bradford City which I missed as my Dad foolishly thought revising for an exam the next day was more important than watching Southport and we won 3-1. The revision didn't do me too much good! It's very sad when you can remember things like that from some 33 years ago isn't it! Ask me about a work related topic from last week and the memory goes blank.

SOUTHPORT 1 WOKING 0-Phew, what a long last 10 minutes they were but we hung on in there to claim 3 very valuable points-The Table certainly looks a touch healthier now. If anybody out there thinks we don't really want to stay up then the joy when we scored and the reaction from the bench at the final whistle should dispel that myth. Some heroes out there tonight and none more so than the recalled Dom Morley, what a game.

9 April The Woking fans are not happy chappies at the moment, reading their forum almost makes ours look positive! Injury ravaged and playing badly the 3 points are there for the taking. It seems the way to beat them is play it on the floor for players to run through on to. So no hoof ball tomorrow and pace up front.

I have discovered Millsters blog today http://themillstersview.blogspot.com/. Even though I disagree with 90% of what the guy says it does make for a good read and it's good to have alternative views but if I ever get that negative about the team/club I will give up...and what is wrong with Frickley might I ask? I do think it needs some positives in it, nothing about the win against Accrington I note. Maybe he's another of the "supporters" who thrive on us doing badly, I'll take him some of my happy pills tomorrow as his life must be so miserable right now!! Keep it going Milly!

8 April Away at Halifax 3pm. HALIFAX 2 SOUTHPORT 1. What an absolute sickener that was, I don't think I have felt so gutted at the end of a football match for a long time. To have a point snatched away 2 minutes and 4 seconds into 2 minutes of added time was very hard to take but that's life when you are at the bottom. It was quite an enjoyable game all round. End to end in the first half when we had a goal disallowed and two cleared off the line but The Shaymen also had plenty of chances and it too a goal 2 mins into added time in the first half to separate the sides. Syd's contender for goal of the season looked to have given us a share of the spoils but that killer goal saw us remain rooted to the bottom of the table. To those Halifax fans who were sympathetic on the way out, thank you, to those who were goading us you are very clever and just remember what goes around comes around, a late winner for Hereford in the play off final and how would you feel!

It was Syd's first league goal since his brace at Kettering last season, he has 11 goals in 138 league appearances. The Halifax winner was the 15th goal we have conceded in the last 10 minutes of a match this season.

I'm sure the four lads with the banner proclaiming we should "Sack The Board-Unambitious" felt better when the Halifax goal went in. How does a board sack a board, I've often wondered that when people use the term? Perhaps they know of someone ready, willing and able to come in and take over a club in our position. Perhaps another Majeed is waiting round the corner. I am the first to say that a lot of our off field activity leaves an awful lot to be desired, I have never known a club manage to alienate so may people in my life, which is why I have got heavily involved in Trust activity, I want to make a difference and see the fans acknowledged as important to the club and I see the Trust as the best way forward. I will happily hold my hands up and say if it doesn't work but I am determined to give it a go. Others can do the same by supporting the Trust which is wholly independent of the club and run by the fans. I don't see any point in  "sacking the board" what would it achieve. Take a long hard look at our attendance history as a NL club. We have only ever had one attendance over 2000 at home that was made up of wholly Southport fans, the match against Frickley when we were presented with the NPL Trophy in 1992/93, the other eight 2000+ gates were boosted by substantial away followings. Would you want to pump money into a club so lacking in support. OK so if I ever get my Lottery win I would but highly unlikely! Remember our FL days, we were promoted from the then 4th Division to the 3rd in72/73 with the lowest ever average gate and if I'm not mistaken only Wimbledon since have "bettered" our figure. A shake up is needed but "sacking the board" may not be the way forward.

I also question the "Liam Out" brigade, should we go down do we want to start from scratch all over again. The guy has made mistakes, some massive ones, but so have I in my job, I learn from them as does Liam. I think we should stick with him and allow him to build for the future whether it is in National or North. I honestly don't know why some people bother supporting the team, there are some who seem to thrive on things going wrong, what a sad existence they must lead with nothing positive to say. The win against Accy was a classic, the moaners were silenced but lose against Crawley and they come out in force. I was hurting today at the end of that match and then you get back and read from people who didn't go how Liam got in wrong blah blah blah, for goodness sake SUPPORT the team for the rest of the season, put your vitriol away and let's all get behind them. IF we can win on Monday and Saturday, who knows, we may still be in with a chance.

7 April Forest Green get a good home point against Accrington.

4 Apr Southport v Lancaster Lancashire Junior Cup Final at Leyland-GAME ON, I hope we go out and give it a go, it would be nice to get something even a minor cup win out of the season. Having done the hard bit and beaten Accrington let's hope we can go all the way tonight.

SOUTHPORT 1 LANCASTER CITY 0 LANCASHIRE JUNIOR CUP WINNERS-and what a boring match it was for the 532 fans to endure, I can't think of too many chances that we created and Liam Blakeman's goal in the 24th minute was all we had to cheer all night. A Cup Final is a Cup Final though so some nice silverware to add to the trophy cabinet. I think there needs to be a bit of a rethink on this competition. The night was flat in a ground with no atmosphere. If you are going to have a final why not play it at a decent Football League ground? I hope there will be a DVD of this game as I have had a bit of trouble sleeping recently and watching this might cure it.

It was our fifth Lancs Junior Cup win the last one was also against Lancaster at Chorley in the 2000/01 season when we won 1-0 thanks to an own goal. It at least gives me a chance to update the Honours Board

3 Apr Altrincham have now been charged by the Conference over fielding an ineligible player. I personally hope we don't gain from this fiasco, it appears on the face of it to be a genuine mistake and whilst some fans would like us to stay up at all costs this is not the way to do it. I agree that it is the Club's responsibility to complete the appropriate checks but in this case the player in question seems to have been less than open about his previous employment.

2 Apr The NLP are reporting that Alty and Accy could face a possible points deduction due to fielding an ineligible player. I hope the matter is sorted out quickly so that everybody knows were they stand before we get into the last few games.

1 Apr Home v Crawley  3pm-after Scarborough's surprise win at Aldershot last week this really is an important match now. Crawley come into the game as one of the in form teams and on the back of a superb 3-0 win in midweek at D&R. The match referee has passed the pitch fit, and the game will go ahead as planned at 3.00pm. A lot of hard work must have gone in to getting the game on after the deluges we had early this morning and around 11am. We all owe the ground staff a big thank you.

What a dreadful performance that was, losing 2-0 at home to Crawley was not in the script and the manner of the defeat was most disappointing. Tactics were wrong, team selection was wrong and too many just did not seem to be bothered. Blakeman's sending off was just so unnecessary, dissent and cheating, what can you say. I even started to believe the sceptics today who think that our leader doesn't want us to stay up for fear of having to fulfil his promise of full time football. Why have we played five at the back for the last two must win games, where has the adventure gone? Yes, against Accy it worked and I can understand it in that game but at Tamworth and today? Looking at the games we have left we now have big problems. It comes to something when the biggest cheer of the day was for Jamie Speare's plumbing expertise!

Why put Kyle Armstrong on Conference forms if he is going to be nowhere near the team, where was Chris Price, Why didn't Bake's start? I need a lie down!

Photo from sgb

Is that Mike Walsh, you couldn't come and save us again could you Mike!!

30 Mar Trust In Yellow meeting at Railway Club 7.30 start.

28 Mar Lancs Junior Cup Final Southport v Lancaster City at Lancashire FA HQ in Leyland. This will be a repeat of the 2000/01 Final when we beat Lancaster 1-0 at Chorley. Let's encourage everyone to make an effort to go to this one. I know it's a minor cup but it is a final and in a pretty hard season the lads deserve a bit of support. THIS IS AN ALL TICKET GAME but tickets can be bought on the night from the LFA ticket office at the ground. MATCH OFF DUE TO WATERLOGGED PITCH

Crawley win 3-0 at D&R and Tamworth hold Exeter to a 1-1 draw.

26 Mar Leady is out for the season after breaking his wrist at work. I'm sure we all wish him a speedy recovery.

25 Mar Away at Tamworth.Tamworth have issued 500 tickets to schoolkids for this game and all have been taken up. I hope it is segregated. Sounds like a few are travelling to this one so it promises to be a decent atmosphere. Let's all get behind the lads from the start, you saw how they were lifted on Tuesday, more of the same I think.

What a bore draw that one was, I think the DVD of this will well and truly cure my insomnia. 0-0 in a most uninspiring game. The crowd of 1442 included 182 Sandgrounders stood behind the goal (counted by SSE not me!) There were also 21 sat in the stand that I could see. Dales had a good first half chance when the keeper made a superb save but apart from a couple of second half half chances there is not much else to write about. It was our 40th 0-0 away draw, 93rd in total. Mark Jackson became player number 531 and the 33rd used this season. Our 1170 Non League league games have now been watched by over 900,000 people at an average of 770. Chris Lane moves into 62nd place in the all time list and 18th in Non League ahead of Billy Stewart and Alan Wilson.

23 Mar Kyle Armstrong, he who impressed us all in the recent reserve game has signed Conference forms and we have also signed Mark Jackson on loan from PNE until the end of the season. It would appear also that you have to accumulate 10 bookings once you reach March before a suspension kicks in so Dales will be free to play after all which on his current form is great news.

22 Mar Glad I had a day off today. The Voicebox needed to recover from last night. Took the opportunity to visit the library to fill in the gaps on my line ups page for the 1988/89 season. I now have a complete record of every line up from 1987/88 to date. I'd like to get every NL line up if possible but it takes ages going through old Visiters in the library so if anyone has any match reports that show the line ups from 78/79 to 86/87 please let me know.

21 Mar Home v Accrington Stanley 7.45pm, interesting reading the Accy forum, predictions range from 0-1 to 0-18 and how silly they look now!

It is so much nicer updating this site when we win and what a win that was 2-0 yes 2-0 against the runaway leaders. A brace from man of the moment Steve Daly gave us what in all honesty was a fairly comfortable win. Accy were not a patch on the team we played at The Interlink in November whether its a wobble I don't know but tonight they were distinctly second best and this was the first time they have failed to score in a league game this season. We even had time to miss a pen (it was Robbo who missed it not Dales as reported on DuneFM and the BBC) and still win. Accy had a player sent off and they also had a pen saved by Dicko. What a great night this was and with Scarborough losing to a 95th minute goal to take us out of the bottom two things could not get much better. The only downside was Dales getting his fifth booking of the season for celebrating with the fans who must take some responsibility for holding him down so long!! Wasn't that cheer brilliant when Colin announced the score from The McCain Stadium, reminiscent of the one at the Hucknall game last year when we heard Droylsden were 3-1 down.

It really is a funny old game isn't it. At 4.50 on Saturday when Alty equalised  we all realistically felt that was it, now just 4 days later we are out of the bottom three and there is hope again. Saturday is one massive game now. I think if we pull ourselves out of this Liam deserves every accolade going, it will be an achievement greater than anything he has done thus far. To the onlooker he appears to be hamstrung for funds but he has got us to a point were we are in with a shout of staying up. Let's not forget we have been outclassed in 14 games this season so far which is a fair percentage but we are hanging on in there.

20 Mar Chris Price rejoins on loan from Stalybridge until the end of the season. Chris holds the distinction of being the 500th player to appear for us in NL football.

19 Mar Thoroughly enjoyed the quiz last night particularly the round on Southport FC when my team was the only team to score maximum points, as for the other rounds, the least said the better!! Very poor attendance, if TIY hadn't sold any tickets there would only have been Haydn's team there. We did manage to raise £109 for TIY thanks to those that were there digging deep and buying lots of raffle tickets.

18 Mar Home v Altrincham. What a heartbreaker that was, 3 minutes 28 seconds into added time Alty equalise and deny us the three points. The trouble is you can't really say they didn't deserve a point today. Our second half showing was poor but we still had chances to extend the lead. I'm gutted tonight even six hours after the end of the match and having attended the quiz!

This was our 72nd home 1-1 draw, the goal we conceded was the 13th time we have let one in in the last 10 minutes and the 2nd time we have let go of the 3 points in added time, remember Tamworth. We have only scored once in the last 10 minutes, at Cambridge. No bookings was a rare event for us as well. Despite what has been written elsewhere I thought today's ref as he was earlier in the season against Exeter is the best in this league. Steve Daly has now scored 24 league goals for us.

Our home average attendance is now 1209.