Mossley on the march in FA Cup

MOSSLEY are £3,000 richer following Saturday’s 4-1 victory at Flixton in the first qualifying round of the FA Cup.

The Lilywhites’ cup adventure continued with a second success against Vodkat North-West Counties League, premier division opponents.

Nick Cook, recently signed from Manchester League outfit Avro, fired Mossley ahead in the 13th minute, the only goal of the opening half in which the visitors had enough chances to have sealed victory.

Flixton carved out three decent scoring chances themselves, with ’keeper Liam Higginbotham making one important save.

Mossley top scorer Michael Fish had a penalty saved early in the second half, but he quickly made amends as he fired home from a Danny Dignan cross to double their lead.

Fish made sure of victory with his second goal of the game and 12th of the season after chasing down a back pass.

Substitute Danny Egan headed a fourth for Mossley, who conceded a late goal from Rick Hodkin, the only blemish of a fine afternoon.

OLDHAM TOWN lost for the first time in the first division of the Vodkat NWCL by a whopping 5-0 margin at AFC Liverpool.

It was an afternoon to forget for Town and but for some fine goalkeeping from Matty Blair they might have lost by an even larger margin.

Town fell behind after five minutes to a goal from Ian Sheridan following a breakaway and they were soon 2-0 down when Ian Johnson punished a defensive blunder.

The loss of their two main central defenders — Tim Buxton failed a fitness test before the game while Damian Schofield broke his nose in the opening half — did not help Town’s cause.

AFC Liverpool sealed a comprehensive victory by scoring three further goals in the final quarter of the game through Dean Thurston, Dave Eaton and Sheridan.

Micky Green was a super-sub for CHADDERTON who produced a brilliant recovery to force a 2-2 home draw against high-flying Norton United in division one of the NWCL.

When Lee Talbot and Paul Rutter gave the Staffordshire side a 2-0 lead after an hour, the writing appeared to be on the wall for the Broadway side.

But they displayed a never-say-die attitude which was epitomised by Green who scored both their goals in the final 19 minutes.

He played a return pass with Paul Socha, breezed past three opponents and rifled home a low shot and then he levelled the scores from a free- kick.

Chadderton might have snatched victory in stoppage time but substitute ’keeper Ben Aspinall — he was used as an outfield replacement as manager Paul Buckley only had two subs — fired straight at the United ’keeper.