Buoyant Vics eye extendingsequence

Apr 1 2008 Liverpool Daily Post

NORTHWICH VICTORIA will be aiming to extend their remarkable unbeaten run to nine games against Histon at Cambridge tonight and move outside the Blue Square Premier relegation zone for the first time this season.

Currently in 22nd place, Vics have 33 points, the same tally as Halifax (21st) , while Farsley (20th), Altrincham (19th) and Weymouth (18th) all have 36 points.

Top-scoring striker Lee Steele is in doubt after going off early in Saturday’s 1-0 win at Oxford, and Accrington loan player Dave Brown stands by to deputise. Goalkeeper Scott Tynan has worked off an ankle injury and returns in place of Ben Connett.

Popular centre-forward Johnny Allan, who suffered a double leg fracture in January last season, is to figure in a specially-arranged private trial match later week to test his recovery and could be back in Blue Square action within two weeks. Allan has been a prolific scorer for Northwich since signing from Carlisle United in 2002.

Meanwhile, Vics Supporters Trust are planning to raise up to £3,000 to enable the managerial staff and players to stay four nights in Devon between their league double-header against Exeter City on Saturday, April 12 and Torquay United on Tuesday, April 15.

Trust chairman Peter Grimes said: “To go all that way twice in four days is a tough ask. If we can help the players stay down there at no expense to the club we would be doing them a service which could make the difference between relegation and staying up.”