Tuesday 15th January 2008
Blue Square North
Blyth Spartans 2 Barrow 3
Att: 320

Spartans poor home form continues after they lost to Barrow who scored twice in the last six minutes to send the Spartans into deeper trouble at the foot of the Blue Square table.

Barrow took the lead on 6 minutes. Chris Thompson reacting to tap the ball home after a Jason Walker free-kick hit the Blyth upright.

It took Spartans only eight minutes to draw level, with Robbie Dale curling in a lovely shot from outside the area. Blyth then scored the third of the night and, once again, Andy Johnson was involved in the build-up as his free-kick was headed into the net by Philip Bell.

Spartans were desperately unlucky not to go 3-1 up as a Peter Snowdon header was cleared off the line, and soon after heading against the bar.

With just six minutes left, Spartans pressed the self destruct button. James Scales found Nicholas Rogan wide on the right and he went on a powerful run before hitting the ball past Adam Bartlett.

Then after some sloppy defending Rogan nipped in to grab all 3 points in the 88th minute, when he slotted home from just inside the area.

Spartans: - 1 Adam Bartlett, 2 Michael Hedley, 3 Ben Christensen (sub Joeseph Wear), 4 Peter Snowdon, 5 Richard Forster, 6 Gary Brown, 7 Adrian Webster (sub Martin Houlahan), 8. Chris McCabe, 9. Robert Dale, 10 Philip Bell, 11 Andrew Johnson (sub Graham Fenton).
Subs not used: - Richard Logan.