Farsley Celtic 1 - 3 Aldershot Town

Last updated : 10 February 2008 By Stray Shots Team

Danny Hylton: First league goal for The Shots
Aldershot Town maintained their six point lead at the top of the Blue Square Premier on Saturday afternoon but only just.

Despite a slow start, The Shots eventually took charge of the match and were passing the ball round with apparent ease against their relegation threatened opposition.

The deadlock was finally broken after 32-minutes when Danny Hylton headed his first league goal for the North Hampshire side and it appeared as if The Shots would go on to win at a canter.

Half-time came far too early for The Shots faithful - but the same could not be said for the final whistle.

The Shots continued to kick on in the second half with a Kirk Hudson goal after sixty-two minutes but eight minutes later the game took a dramatic turn and swung in the opposite direction.

A shocking back pass by Anthony Charles with 70-minutes gone saw Damien Reeves gain control of a loose ball and he coolly tapped it into an empty net with ease.

From then on it was all Farsley and The Shots now looking shell-shocked, will have to be given credit for riding out the resulting Celtic onslaught.

Farsley hit the crossbar on seventy-two minutes, before Rob Gier handled the ball on the edge of the Shots penalty area just seconds later giving away a needless free kick which fortunately resulted in no danger.

Nikki Bull missed a cross with nine minutes to go - but fortune favours the brave, and with a massive stoke of luck, the ball also evaded all the other players and went out of danger.

The Shots hosts went on to hit the crossbar for a second time just three minutes later and when the fourth official advertised a full five minutes of added time, Shots supporters everywhere would have been down to their elbows, having bitten their nails, hands and forearms with the tense finish.

It wouldn't be Aldershot if things had gone so easily though and just as things were beginning to look bleak, Kirk Hudson stepped up and slotted the ball into the back of the net for his second and The Shots third, to give the score line a comfortable look and send the Celtic supporters home wondering how they didn't manage to at least gain a point from an exciting match.