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FC United aiming for sixth spot with Droylsden derby

FC United aiming for sixth spot with Droylsden derbyFC United will move up to sixth place in the Evo-Stik Premier Division on Tuesday night if we can win one of our games in hand as we make the short trip to bottom of the table Droylsden.

With no other fixtures in the division scheduled this week, the Reds have the opportunity to make some ground on the 10 teams above us and get towards the all-important play-off places.

Manager Karl Marginson may give a debut to 21-year-old creative midfielder Joe Fox, who has joined the club from Frickley Athletic, having previously been a junior footballer at Hull City.

Droylsden are without a win all season in any competition after being relegated from the Conference North last season and going into freefall. However, the Reds should not allow that to make them become complacent. Hopefully, memories of basement club Durham City pulling off an unlikely 2-1 victory over us in March 2010 will help focus United on the task in hand.

The Reds have met the Bloods just once before, in the Manchester Premier Cup, back in 2007 where we won 3-2 at the Butcher’s Arms Ground courtesy of goals from Cayne Hanley, Aaron Burns and Rory Patterson. A similar result would do nicely tonight.

Get yourself to that football ground.


First Posted ~ 11:07 Tue 26 Nov 2013
News ID ~ 5211
Last Updated ~ 16:00 Fri 19 Feb 2021