Two see red as Frickley Athletic and Horbury Town play out goalless ‘battle’
After banging in the goals recently it was the defensive side of Frickley Athletic’s game that shone as they came home with a valuable point from their short trip to play Horbury Town in the Macron NCE Premier Division.
Martyn Woolford’s side played out a goalless draw away to bottom of the table Horbury Town – but had to play all bar 21 minutes with 10 men after left-back William Jenkinson was sent-off.
Horbury also played much of the contest with a man down with forward Gibril Bojang given his marching orders for an elbow offence just five minutes into the West Yorkshire derby.
It set the tone for a niggly match not helped by the referee who evened up the numbers when Jenkinson was red carded for a poorly timed challenge.
The Blues edged it as the more composed 10 men, but it was no surprise the game ended goalless.
"I think from start to finish it was just a horrible scrappy game,” said manager Woolford.
"We set off all right and got in a great position when they had man sent-off and didn’t capitalise.
"I would not take Will’s aggression out of his game, but I just said be a little bit cleverer at the time of the game where it was. If we keep 11 men on the pitch it’s a different story.
"It was tough to play on the pitch, it just turned into a battle, a scrap, it was hard to play any kind of football.
"We are away from home, just got a draw and we are disappointed – that says a lot of where we are now to where we were three or four weeks ago. We have come a long way.
"It’s a point on the board, it’s got us another place up the table and we are heading in the right direction.”
Frickley have collected seven points from their last three league games and are now in 12th place in the table ahead of Tuesday’s quick return to league action at home to Pickering Town and Saturday’s match at Albion Sports. They also face Rossington Main at home in a third round Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior Cup tie next Tuesday.
Glasshoughton Welfare’s struggles continued in Division One as they lost 4-1 at home to Selby Town.
The visitors were ahead from the 24th minute as a low cross was flicked in by Joe Rawclife.
Dan Davison doubled the lead six minutes into the second half before Welfare hit back with Eli Carpenter’s curling shot.
They remained in the contest until two goals in the last six minutes clinched Selby’s win as Lleyton Brown and Harty Clapram netted.
Glasshoughton are at home again this Saturday when they take on Worsbrough Bridge Athletic.