Macc Title Pursuit Is Durr-able To The End

VERDICT: Below-par Silkmen strike a killer blow to the chasing pack as Scott Wilson’s last-gasp winner leaves boss John Askey sending out a ‘catch us if you can’ challenge to rivals

- Mike Glendinning

TITLE-WINNING teams find a way to win when they’re not at their best. Champions often do so right at the death.

And Macclesfield Town, who may yet go on to take the National League crown, landed a killer blow, not only to their visitors from Maidenhead, but also the chasing pack.

John Askey’s Silkmen maintained their five-point lead with Scott Wilson heading in the only goal of an evenly-matched game in the first minute of stoppage time.

If anything, Maidenhead had had the better of the game in the second half but were undone by Elliott Durrell’s superb cross for Wilson to break the Magpies’ hearts.

And manager Askey sent out the message that, unlike recent years when his sides have been weakened in January and fallen away, the Silkmen won’t surrender their lead at the top without a scrap.