Saturday morning’s trip to Manchester proved beneficial with the Young Reds coming out on top in a ten-goal thriller, completing a league double in the process.

Borough Park has staged so much late drama this season, so no great surprise that we had to wait until the eighty-eighth minute for a goal.

Reds’ bewildering season took another dramatic twist in Lincolnshire.  They avoided the late, late drama that has plagued their season, which has seen fourteen points dropped from the eighty-fifth minute onwards.

A spectacular Ryan Handford goal in the dying seconds maintained the young Reds winning sequence but they were stretched all the way by a good Witton Albion outfit.

At the thirteenth attempt, Workington returned to winning ways and whilst they couldn’t replicate the fluent, attacking football they produced on recent away days this display of courage, commitment and character epitomised the sort of qualities needed for a relegation scrap. 

Another first for the young Reds with their ‘home’ fixture against the Shropshire based academy taking place at Darwen FC, a half-way venue to ease journey time.

Workington have never lost in sixteen league meetings against Cables but it felt like a defeat when they conceded another late goal and had to settle for just the one point when, undoubtedly, they deserved all three.

The young Reds were on the road by 6am and on the pitch three and half hours later for an early start at the Marine Travel Arena.

1 / 2 Workington 0 Hebburn Town 1 Workington’s mini-unbeaten run came to a stuttering halt when a below-par showing resulted in league defeat number fourteen.

Reds extended their winning run in the Lancashire League to nine matches and increased the lead at the top of the table to nine points.

The young Reds returned to JPL action for the first time since mid-December and maintained their 100% winning record in the league. Having beaten Burscough’s younger age group earlier in the season, this was more of a test but one Reds met with the right mind set. It was a cagey opening to the game with neither side creating too much in the early stages. Harrison Rogers was unlucky not to open the scoring, having one effort cleared off the line and then thwarted by a double s

Workington were seconds away from a morale boosting victory after another gallant display at Broadhurst Park.

The Towbar Express Stadium emerged as a green oasis in snow covered North Yorkshire after a challenging cross-country journey.

They say winning football matches becomes a habit but not winning games is also habitual and, no matter what they do, Workington cannot buy a victory at the moment.

It was a case of too little, too late as Reds came to life late in the day in their first ever meeting against Cleethorpes Town, a young club on the up.

Stockton completed the league double over luckless Reds for the second successive season, but had to work for the points on this occasion as a fine, determined effort from the hosts went unrewarded.

Two goals ahead, with less than three minutes on the clock, should have been the foundation for a comfortable victory for the young Reds.  However, it was anything but as the Manchester side staged a brave recovery and probably deserved some reward from a closely fought encounter.

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.

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.

With Borough Park currently waterlogged, this Lancashire League fixture was switched to Penrith’s Frenchfield.