It was all to play for on this cold night and the instruction to the team overheard from the dressing room was this was to be a battle and anyone not up for it should not be pulling on the shirt. Both teams looked nervous from the off and after the first five minutes Jarrow settled to enjoy the best of the possession for 20 minutes. What could Horden do to change it? It needed a goal and it came on 23rd minute when Roy Allen won a corner, Darren Atkinson curled in a perfect ball that troubled an inexperienced ‘keeper, who rose and two handed it forward into his own net. Horden 1-0. This unsettled the ‘Roofers’ and Horden enjoyed more and more play, spells of crisp passing and going so close through Maddison on two other occasions. 'All in' was the policy and every player was earning their crust now, including Andrew Rafferty in the Horden goal.

The second half started with the feeling that if only we could get another, we needed a cushion to calm the nerves. 51 minutes and Neal Guttridge saw a looping shot sail over the bar and then Rafferty was called on to make a super close range shot at the other end. Darren Atkinson tested the keeper on a couple more occasions and then between 60 and 70 minutes Horden had their best spell. They held the ball up well, created chances and space. It looked like it might just happen; and then it did; a fabulous bursting run through the midfield from substitute Ross Galley in the 70th minute, his shot was deflected by the keeper into the path of the fast moving Jarrow full back who hit it into his own net. 2-0 to Horden. The keepers protest saw him dismissed and Jarrow down to ten men. On 75 minutes Jarrow responded through an Andy Johnson strike which made the last 15 minutes nail biting to say the least, both teams having chances and working hard. Final score 1-2 and we live to fight another day this time against Woodley Sports on 29th September at Welfare Park.

"Two own goals" said the Chairman "we might be having a goal scoring crisis, but we will take them however they come!"