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.

Billy Barr has been in the Borough Park hot seat for a month now and his pragmatic approach to the task in hand seems to be working. Although still at the foot of the Premier Division table, Reds have shown a noticeable improvement recently and one defeat in six outings is a marked improvement on the half dozen matches prior to that. Reds won at Stocksbridge, under the final game of Brian Dawson’s tenure, and have added another six points under Barr’s watch.  With a bit of luck, that could...