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60 • Visit us @ www.ChampNews.com WK The <strong>Champion</strong> • Wednesday 28 November 2012<br />

SPORT<br />

Tough FA Trophy test<br />

THE draw for the Second Round<br />

Proper of The FA Carlsberg<br />

Trophy has been made at<br />

Wembley on Monday with 16<br />

ties scheduled for December<br />

15. Southport face a tough<br />

away fixture to Stockport<br />

County while Skelmersdale<br />

United will host Guiseley<br />

should they progress in their<br />

replay against Boston United.<br />

Neither of last season’s<br />

Trophy Finalists are in the<br />

competition, winners York City<br />

having been promoted into<br />

League 2 and runners–up<br />

Newport County losing their<br />

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Boston cup replay<br />

Boston United 1<br />

Skelmersdale United 1<br />

SKEM earned another go at Boston<br />

United after their trip to South–East<br />

Lincolnshire on Saturday.<br />

This is despite playing a quarter of<br />

the game with ten men after referee<br />

Sarah Garratt made what is best<br />

described as the hasty and harsh<br />

decision to dismiss midfielder Antony<br />

Hickey for a raised boot and having<br />

grabbed the lead in the 51st minute<br />

when Skelmersdale were well on top<br />

of their opponents from two divisions<br />

above them.<br />

West Lancashire football fans will at<br />

least get their chance to see round two<br />

of the contest at the West Lancashire<br />

College Stadium on Tuesday night,<br />

kick off 7.45pm. If it is only half as<br />

good as the match at York Street it will<br />

be a thriller.<br />

Whether Skelmersdale manager<br />

Tommy Lawson’s opening ruse of<br />

sending his team out with his<br />

defenders wearing forward numbers<br />

and forwards wearing defensive<br />

numbers (2 & 3) made much<br />

difference to the game is debateable<br />

but after around twenty minutes his<br />

team started to pose a real threat to<br />

the hosts.<br />

In the 24th minute Lewis Field won a<br />

corner from a buccaneering run down<br />

the right, from the kick Rob McIntosh<br />

saw his goalbound header cleared off<br />

the line by home defender Tom Ward.<br />

In the 27th minute, Burnett went<br />

close again after Mark Jackson set him<br />

Dismal day at the office for Linnets<br />

Burscough 0<br />

New Mills 3<br />

BURSCOUGH will rue wasteful<br />

possession and sloppy defending as<br />

they went down to a 3–0 home defeat<br />

by New Mills.<br />

Burscough pressed and probed in the<br />

opening exchanges with some neat<br />

Maghull on the right<br />

road to recovery<br />

Heswall Reserves 2<br />

Maghull Reserves 4<br />

DESPITE all the trials and tribulations<br />

that the club has had to endure over<br />

the past few months – the<br />

resignations of two successive first<br />

team managers and the mass exodus<br />

of almost the whole of last season’s<br />

senior and youth team squads and<br />

staff – Maghull Football Club’s<br />

determination to fight back is being<br />

rewarded by the impressive<br />

performances the reserve team is<br />

producing.<br />

Manager Peter Nolan has built his<br />

squad around a number of<br />

experienced players who have<br />

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Report by Neil Leatherbarrow<br />

up, and then Kenny Strickland had a<br />

shot saved by Boston keeper Dan<br />

Haystead.<br />

In the 36th minute, Strickland even<br />

tried one audacious effort, attempting<br />

to chip an off his line Haystead from<br />

inside his own half, against the wind.<br />

He didn’t succeed but it did show<br />

Skelmersdale’s confidence and that<br />

what followed later was no fluke.<br />

The second–half started with<br />

Skelmersdale strongly on the<br />

offensive, a couple of minutes in<br />

Jackson went near with a header then<br />

the big opportunity arrived in the 51st<br />

minute. After a move down the right<br />

Jackson had a shot scrambled off the<br />

line, the ball was hooked clear to<br />

Skelmersdale’s left, Paul Woolcott<br />

played it to Strickland and “Crafty<br />

Kenny” saw the keeper slightly off his<br />

line again and this time he dropped<br />

the ball over Haystead into the far side<br />

of the goal.<br />

Woolcott was pushed off a loose ball<br />

by James Reed, who slotted it through<br />

for substitute Spencer Weir–Daley,<br />

who blasted past an exposed Ashton<br />

for the equaliser.<br />

In the 67th minute Skelmersdale got<br />

an unlucky break. From a throw–in<br />

the ball dropped over Hickey’s head<br />

on the halfway line, he turned to<br />

cushion the ball down and collided<br />

with Newsham, his foot was raised<br />

but it was very unlikely to cause<br />

damage. However, arguably rather<br />

football but failed to convert anything<br />

into real chances.<br />

On the stroke of half time New Mills<br />

took the lead from the penalty spot,<br />

Meakin slotting home from 12 yards.<br />

The Linnets should have levelled<br />

moments after the restart when<br />

Clarke’s perfect cross evaded the<br />

head of Cummins at the near post.<br />

Report by Andy Boyd<br />

remained loyal to the club, and added<br />

to them talented youngsters a couple<br />

of whom have resisted offers to go<br />

elsewhere.<br />

His team turned in another such<br />

performance when they recovered<br />

brilliantly from a two goal deficit to<br />

cruise into the last four of the<br />

Howarth and Gallagher Bowl courtesy<br />

of a 4–2 victory at third in the table<br />

Heswall Reserves last Saturday.<br />

The home team raced into a two goal<br />

lead before the interval thanks to<br />

strikes from Jay Thompson and Lee<br />

Dermody but goals from Mick<br />

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impetuously within a split second a<br />

red card was brandished and off went<br />

Hickey, a very unlucky player indeed.<br />

Tommy Lawson was forced to<br />

change things, he brought on Adam<br />

Morning and Aaron Turner leaving<br />

Burnett up front on his own.<br />

In added time Boston were now<br />

frantic and almost snatched the game,<br />

but Skelmersdale deserved a little<br />

luck and Ashton made a pair a<br />

reaction saves to deny Ian Ross and<br />

Nathan Stainfield. It would have been<br />

a sad injustice had Boston been let off<br />

the hook they will not relish the trip<br />

Lancashire on Tuesday.<br />

Skelmersdale United 3<br />

Salford City 2<br />

WITH less than twenty minutes left on<br />

the clock at the West Lancashire<br />

College Stadium, it looked like game<br />

up for Skelmersdale United’s<br />

unbeaten start to the season, the<br />

obituaries were being planned they<br />

were 2–0 down and seemingly not<br />

looking likely to rescue the situation.<br />

But the scribes should know better,<br />

especially if they have seen all<br />

Skelmersdale’s matches this season.<br />

Manager Tommy Lawson made three<br />

substitutions in the 69th minute and<br />

within eleven minutes, they went<br />

from down and out to celebrating a<br />

sensational victory.<br />

One Skelmersdale supporter<br />

summed it up well on the club forum:<br />

“It was like the cavalry had come over<br />

the hill.”<br />

It wasn’t to be, as New Mills doubled<br />

their lead through Hampson’s<br />

prodded effort on 72 minutes.<br />

Burscough could have nicked a late<br />

goal when Cummins headed against<br />

the post but instead conceded when<br />

Meakin sealed the game from the<br />

penalty spot for the second time when<br />

Williams hauled down Hampson.<br />

McGinn, his tenth of the season, Billy<br />

Rice, his ninth, Marco Parvas and<br />

Dave Hughes sealed yet another fine<br />

win to set up a home semi final tie<br />

against either Marshalls or Mallaby on<br />

March 2 next year. This victory<br />

extends Pete Nolan’s team unbeaten<br />

run to seven games. Due to scheduled<br />

opponents Newton being involved in<br />

a delayed Cheshire Cup tie the first<br />

team were without a Carlsberg West<br />

Cheshire First Division game last<br />

Saturday but they return to action<br />

next Saturday when they travel to<br />

Wallasey to face current champions<br />

Ashville in a Wirral Senior Cup match<br />

which kicks off at 2pm. The Reserves<br />

will play AFC Bebington from 2pm.<br />

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