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Cables gave themselves a valuable lifeline in this UniBond Premier Division match between two sides not yet clear of the drop.

The first half hour of the match was very tense with neither side wanting to give too much away. Tom Raw shot over for the visitors after nine minutes and four minutes later Cables' Eamonn Price was dispossessed by goalkeeper David Campbell, but there was little goalmouth action in the opening stages.

The game exploded to life for all the wrong reasons after half an hour. Cables' Liam Kennedy and Whitby's Matty Appleby went for a 50-50 ball which resulted in an unfortunate injury for the latter who had to be substituted. Some of the Whitby players appeared to believe that Kennedy's challenge had been less than fair and Tony Hackworth squared up to Kennedy and both players ended up being shown the yellow card. The vendetta continued and it was no great surprise that the two players were both shown the red card before the end of the half, albeit it in separate incidents.

The half-time score was Cables 0 Whitby 0: a score that would do neither side any favours but would be preferable to the visitors who were sitting above the drop zone before the match.

The sides got back to concentrating on football in the second half and Whitby came close after 48 and 51 minutes with chances for Brunskill and Karl Charlton respectively.

On the hour mark the home crowd let out an enormous roar of delight and relief as Eddie Taylor blasted the ball into the net from just outside the penalty area.

Whitby came close to pulling level eight minutes later when Charlton was unlucky to see his close range shot superbly tipped away by Zak Hibbert in the home side's goal.

The game ended Cables 1 Whitby 0, which leaves us with a fascinating finale to the season. The side in eleventh place is only two points above the relegation zone and could still go down.

Man of the match: Eddie Taylor
Entertainment: *** out of five

Teams:

Cables	num.	Whitby Town
Hibbert	1	Campbell
Cooney (c)	2	Pallander
Smith	3	Burgess
McEwen	4	Appleby (c)
Karl Bell	5	Lyth
Owens	6	Hackworth
Wade	7	Burton
Eddie Taylor	8	Ormerod
Kennedy	9	Raw
Price	10	Brunskill
Croxton	11	Charlton
Byers (on for 7 after 85 mins)	12	Scott (on for 4 after 31 mins)
Flood (on for 11 after 90 mins)	14	Claisse (on for 7 after 70 mins)
Tommy Taylor (on for 10 after 83 mins)	15	Nogan (on for 9 after 63 mins)