Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Spennymoor Town suffered their heaviest league defeat in six years when they were well beaten by F.A.Vase conquerors Ashington at Woodhorn Lane on Tuesday night. However, the defeat was the first in six games and only the third of the season for the Moors who still remain on course for their third consecutive league title.
Moors made one change to the side that won comfortably at South Shields at the weekend with Chris Mason replacing Stephen Foster at the back. A tight opening which was reminiscent to the F.A.Vase game between the two sides in December continued until the half hour mark when the game exploded into life. Gavin Cogdon had gone close with the Moors’ first effort when his shot flew inches over, but minutes later Steven Richardson met a right wing corner from Keith Graydon to direct a bullet header into the roof of the net.
But the Colliers hit back superbly to reverse the lead with two well taken goals in ten minutes before the break.
The equaliser came following a corner on the right by former Moors schemer Tommy English which was not cleared and when James Taylor played the ball across, Mark O’Dea clipped home right footed, squeezing the ball between keeper Craig Turns and the post.
With only seconds of the half remaining, Newcastle United loanee Dan Taylor fired Ashington ahead. James Taylor fed Marc Walton who pulled the ball back from the by-line for Taylor who applied a great first touch then whipped home across Turns and inside the far post.
Any chance Moors had of getting back into the game early in the second period vanished with only 33 seconds played in the second period, it was Taylor on the mark again to push his side into a 3-1 lead as English chipped through a precision pass to Taylor who Read the full Match Report »
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