Sunny Day Clouds Over

Todays visitors from the Arnott Stadium are Durham City. They have travelled in to Stainton Park with an impressive start to the season with no losses notched and only one conceded. With Boro not winning at home the bookies will have this in favour of the North East outfit. A fantastic Sunny day greets all to Stainton Park.

An unchanged starting line up ater the well deserved victory at Lancaster

Rutter is on the bench after returning from Ramsbottom.

Mr Norriss gets the game underway and his first decision is a free kick to the Boro , Unsworth sends it long that Griff Jones in a good forward position can not reach. Durham bring the first threat, a decent cross in sees priestley miss the flight of the ball and luckily it goes by the Durham forward only to reach Richardson who well placed misses the target, a let off.

Boro react well and are playing at a good tempo.Oates and Chappell combine well in the box with Oates supplying a great ball to Chappell who heads well but not well enough to beat the man on the line.

Chappell is on his game when he wins the ball well in the centre circle feeding Forrest who duly returns the pass , Chappell confidently strikes the ball to send it two yard wide. Durhams Morris finds himself in the box but cant get the better of Unsworth. Boro move quickly and realise Griff Jones on ten minutes to send a cross in for the waiting Oates , he slams it into the bar! Great chance. Durham have to defend again after good work by Forrest as he feeds Hill to strike wide. Durham win the first corner that Priestley punches well but falls for the incoming Dodds he fires the ball hard toward the goal, Priestley makes a fine save to his high right .

On 18 minutes Martyn Forrest collapses on the half way line untackled but looking to be holding his throat, both benches and officials react quickly and stop the game . After 15 minutes of treatment and concern from all in the ground he walks from the pitch. The team clearly disturbed by the incident decide not to carry on. Durham accept very professionally and face a long journey home.

After a short time i leave the ground impressed by the professionalism showed by all parties, a sad end to a promising day.

Best wishes and a speedy recovery to Martyn Forrest.

I'll see you at Curzon.