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■Lancaster City^'’'^ .Clith'eroe>r^,' fA^LACElLySTRE:Boxing_Day.: performance; saw Glitheroe’s wretched nm coiitmue.-tgjjfcfe frKDave.Foster’s solitary strike just before the'; hour stretched:the;BluesV record to' just one win in their last*12 league and cup outings.fef' ri*; And iwith not a single clean sheet in that; nm, manager Neil R ^ o ld s has his work cut! out-* to get the Blues’: promotion challenge' back on track.


=p.TomdiTow’s hbme'clash with Lancaster rep- ' resents what must go down as a must-win for, the Blues, as they begin to get cut adrift from ! the playoff places.--^- ' " ' ’


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4%The three points were nothing less than the * home side deserved from a confident Md solid performance,-as Ciitheroe left their shooting boots at home'on Boxing Day./. , '


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.with City.goalkeeper Neil Beesley rarely called ■ into any kind of action.’


■rfeThe visitors posed little threat throughout;, 1 , ' ^ '


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y.v-j Foster had the game’s first chance .when, * after finding Reid; he cut inside and unleashed, a powerful shot that Martm-Fearon did well to


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.-.iLee’Do'dgson’s superblyrflightediree kick; dnfted inches wide, and Paul Haddbw’s over-; head.kick went'straight atiFearon asiCity: dominated the first half.'^


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si'Clitheroe posed,little.threatr-with only: ; Craig Sargeson looking a serious danger, as he; returned on the left of midfield. « , - - € w*The second half came to life after eight mjn-; utes when City^were incensed by'the referee’s*


'decisionmob to award a*penalty,:for:what looked like handball." .


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•S^But.they directed their anger in the right* direction,'producing a:purple patch* which', yielded the only goal of the game. ■ First, ;Marit!Jackson got away down’the'


right and crossed dangerously-, only. to. see Dominic Ward crowded^out: i -


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'?i*lTh'enf just before the hour,-'EldertonTode two challenges'before crossing for Reid,^who; set up Foster^to tap home. ' , r* '


'?A Clitheroe did improve marginally, with: Sargeson-firmg a shot straight at-BeesIey but City’s defence kept them at arm’s length, vsri*?-;


.“^Lancaster almost increased their lead m the’ latter stages; with Ward volleying over,Dodg-; son shooting wide and Reid'ha*ving a goal dis­ allowed for off-side, but they had already done. enough.^.*’J'p"''


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CrownPainls'. . - .^. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0 ELLIOTT*Watson netted twice as Wolves triumphed in this re-arranged festive fixture.


’’s He netted in either half as Crown Paints were swept aside, with Frankie Jackson also scoring a brace. An own goal and one each for Judson Hickey and Ewan Jackson rounded off the scoring.


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• '■ By Phil Simpson* -


- CRITICAL is how Neil Reynolds :: i describes-


*;Clitheroe’s New Year’s Day * showdown with Lancaster City.


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And showdown could well be the word used after-


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- wards, should the result not go the way of the Blues.' •’ * The Ciitheroe. boss-


■ admits he is feeling the - pressure after just one win * -in their last-12 le a ^ e and ,, cup outings. So much so, that should'


' Lancaster corhplete'a fe s - , tive double over, his s id e , ;


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the repercussions could be ; unthinkable: “I’m putting;


.a bit of pfe^ure on myself,' what with one win in the


J a s t 1 * ; ■ ! . ; ! - ! : “And to be honest,df we don’t win against Lancast-


, er, it could be my last game. ■ “I ’ve gdt.to be thinking


' ‘if I cannot motivate the . players; then Lneed to be looking at myself f, because the buck stops iwth me. * ' . “I dont waht to have to be m a position;to do that, *


'but there is no way in this, world. we; can -accept' the • kind of performance we put -


-m at Lancaster! ' . V* • . “I takefull responsibility for it; I dp the team tactics, ■


I pick the team, and I need to ask myself if the players aren’t good enough, then is


f t me who is at fault for it all? ■


• ■ : “I don’t want to be stay-


■ ing in a jobvwhere l am ■ underperforming, and if the players aren’t responding


, to what I’m saying.” -■ ; ; ‘ . -;:He added: ‘T i l be hon­ est. Boxing Day couldn’t,


mome soon enough, and I was so disappointed after­ wards. “I need to question


whether the players are as upset as what l am'when we perform like ;th a t ,' because I don’t know if it is . hurting enough people.


, . “They are the same play-:


ers that were bn a good run! at the start of the season, so we all know they can do it.


- “So it needs to be asked whether they haye stopped - lis tening ; t o ; m e i'* a


' whether they,are going to ’ keep playirig-like'this'untib


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I’m not. the manager any­ more.


“ These results and per­ formances are absbiutely , killing me, and .I \vill do any­ thing and everything for this


: football club to make it a s , successful as it deserves;tb be. * “We keep shbdting our­


selves in the foot, because the , way the results went on Box­ ing Day, if we had performed .; and got the result, then we*-


” would haye been right back in - ■ the mix again.: .


! ; - “This game oh New Year’s


v Day is critical for iis - one = - win from;12;meahs nothing; now, we heed to start the'new . year with a clean sheet aind a . . wini'no questions.^ked.”


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