Beesley inspires Wire win

WARRINGTON Town got back to winning ways thanks to a brace from on loan striker Mark Beesley (pictured top) as they came from a goal down to beat Farsley 2-1.
The first half began slowly, with neither side taking a grip on proceedings, Town’s Michael Reid shooting wide before before Andy Robertson was called into action to tip over a goalbound effort from Farsley defender Mark Jackson. Town had a great chance to open the scoring on 17 minutes, Ash Ruane being played through, only to stumble, giving time for the Farsley rearguard to block the shot for a corner.
The best chance for the visitors fell to midfielder Adam Priestley, who found himself through on goal, only to see his powerful effort well saved by Robertson at close range. Ruane was giving the visitors defence problems with his pace, and on one such occasion, his square ball evaded the three on rushing Town defenders and was cleared by Rob Etherington for the visitors.
After such a lifeless first half, the game was crying out for a goal, and the visitors duly opened the scoring in the 49th minute, Priestley finding a yard of space in the Town defence to head home his fellow winger, Chris Walton’s excellent cross, giving Robertson no chance from close range.
This was the spur that Town needed to start to play the football that all Town fans know that they are capable of, and immediately began to take the game to their visitors, with Allan Collins seeing his shot well saved by Farsley’s former Garforth goalkeeper Ben Higginson.
Despite taking control of the game, Town were soon indebted to Robertson for keeping the deficit at one goal, as he was in the right place to save from Farsley striker Steve Mallory, who was first to react to a quickly taken free kick by the visitors. Once again it was Ruane who got in behind the home defence, this time seeing his low angled shot well saved at full length by Higginson.
With just over a quarter of an hour to go, manager Shaun Reid introduced on loan striker Mark Beesley to proceedings in place of Allan Collins, which gave Town a fresh threat going forward, but before Beesley could have an effect on play, Robertson once again came to the fore, saving well from Mallory once again.
As time ran down, Town began to push forward once again, looking for the equaliser their play deserved, Reid, seeing his shot saved after a fine run into the heart of the Farsley defence.
With ten minutes left for play, Town found their equalising goal, a corner from the left was not cleared by the Farsley defence, and fell to Beesley, who had found a yard of space at the far post, and shot home, despite the best efforts of Higginson, who couldn’t keep the ball out, desite getting a hand to it.
Less than a minute later and Town almost took the lead, Ruane seeing his curling effort smack away to safety off the upright, with Higginson statuesque.
With five minutes left, Town took the lead, a Reid ball into the box, saw Ruane felled, and referee Mr Mather, denied Town what looked like the most obvious of penalties, and in the commotion that followed, it was Beesley who kept his composure, to roll the ball home from a tight angle, to send most of the crowd within the ground into raptures of joy.
Despite falling behind so late in the game, the visitors immediately went looking for an equalising goal, and deep into the five minutes injury time, inexplicably added by Mr Mather, Farsley went close to an equaliser, Mallory being played through wide out, but seeing his angled shot go across the face of Robertson’s goal and wide of the far post.
Warrington Town’s next fixture is at home again next Saturday (24th November) as Evo-Stik NPL First Division North leaders Mossley come to the Abacus Solicitors Community Stadium in a 3:00pm kick off, following a 7-0 thrashing of Garforth!