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Main were looking to prove they had no hangover from the festive period when they entertained local rivals Parkgate at Muglet Lane but it proved a nightmare afternoon for The Miners as their local rivals ran riot to more than avenge the 2-1 win for Main at Green Lane last month. Stand-in central defender, Luke Fletcher, was absent through illness and Main were ominously without regular centre backs Chris Piperithis and James Mitchell.

Main got off the line the quicker with Scott Somerville racing onto Liam Kay’s through ball but his 3rd minute shot went over the bar.and the home side had a great chance to take the lead in the eighth minute when Jordan Stock fired a low shot inches wide of the goal.

However, it was the visitors who opened the scoring when Ryan Johnson rose high at the back post to head home Adam Fretwell’s quickly taken 13th minute free kick.

Main ‘keeper Olly Schofield pulled off a great save to deny Fretwell, tipping his free kick over the bar in the twentith minute but, a minute later, Schofield was barely tested by Johnson’s header which was straight at him.

On the half hour Mark Johnson forced Schofield into a great save low down from twenty five yards and Main were furious in the thirty fourth minute when Jovan Maric raced onto Nicky Darker’s through ball and was upended by Richard Haigh but referee Mark Griffiths waved away the protests for waht looked like a certain penalty.

With most of the Main players and supporters still furious, Gavin Allott added salt to the wounds when he slotted the ball under Schofield to make it 2-0 just forty seconds later.

Allott aded his second a minute later when he held off two defenders and side footed the ball into the far corner of the Main goal.

Schofield denied Allott a first half hat trick in the forty first minute when he raced onto Matt Outram's through ball but the Main

keeper saved well with his legs. Outram was shown the yellow card for a show dissent towards the referee when he was judged to have dived in an attempt to win a free kick.

Main were forced to make a substitution with the injured Danny Mullooley being replaced by Scott Riley.

Jovan Maric was unlucky not to have pulled a goal back for Main in the forty ninth minute when he threw himself at Kay’s free kick but headed just wide of the far post.

Johnson grabbed his second and Parkgate’s 4th in the fifty third minute when he side footed home Fretwell’s cross from the right wing.

Maric was trying his best to get his name on the score sheet when he raced onto the ball after Haigh’s weak clearance but his shot hit the outside of the post and out for a goal kick.

Main manager Sean Kay went for a huge gamble bringing on both Russ Hobson and Danny Payne for Andy Hirst and Somerville to play four strikers, in an attempt to turn the game around but the rout was sealed in the seventy first minute when Johnson headed Fretwell’s cross over Schofield to make it five.

A minute later Riley was unlucky when he was clear through on goal but his shot flew wide of the goal and both Kay and Paul Staniforth went close to giving Main at least a consolation when they headed just wide of the goal in the eighty second minute.

The visitors had the ball in the net for the sixth time when Johnson’s shot hit the post and John Pickess side footed the ball into the empty net but he was in an offside position.

Main: Olly Schofield, Danny Mullooley (Scott Riley 45), Mark Coggin, Nicky Darker, Paul Staniforth (Capt), Andy Hirst (Russ Hobson 66), Chris Dickman, Liam Kay, Scott Somerville (Danny Payne 66), Jovan Maric, Jordan Stock