Reds U23s maintained their winning start to the Lancashire League season, producing their best win of the campaign and completing a league double in the process. They recorded an eighth successive victory to increase their lead at the top to nine points.

He played against us in August, has since made a dozen NPL appearances in Workington colours and now Hayden Atkinson can reflect on his senior debut for Carlisle United, making a twenty-minute cameo in Sunday’s FA Cup tie v. Blackpool at Bloomfield Road.

Workington’s mini revival came to a slithering halt in the Borough Park mud as ‘Brig finished the stronger, after what had been an even slog for seventy-five minutes.