Credit to the Wigan based Warriors for fulfilling the fixture on a Monday evening and doing so without several regulars.  They made a bright start and were technically very good throughout but, ultimately, were swept aside by a physically stronger Reds outfit.

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.

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.

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.