If anything was going to get the better of Workington in yet another important fixture at the foot of the table, it was their own state of mind.

A very young Reds team crashed out of the Lancashire League Cup in wet and windy conditions at the Giant Axe. They were taken out of their comfort zone of U18 football and thrown into the lion’s den against a more experienced City line-up. But for twenty-nine minutes, Reds kept City at arm’s length and played some decent football without seriously testing the home ‘keeper, Harry Pemberton. The floodgates opened after Ben Jackson’s goal, though, with the Dolly Blues scoring th

Saturday’s NPL Premier Division fixture at Borough Park versus Stocksbridge Park Steels, is an important fixture but no more important than our last seven games or, for that matter, the next seven. It is a situation we have found ourselves in after a disappointing start to the season, prompting a change of management in November. When Billy Barr was appointed, we had nine points in the bank and, although matters have improved dramatically since then, we are still playing cat

Having won the President’s Cup twenty years earlier, Reds again reached the two-legged final in 2004 and, second time around, faced neighbours Barrow on a ‘home and away’ basis.