Darlington 1-2 Hornchurch: Urchins close in on Wembley dream

By Craig Stoddart

DARLINGTON 1
Sousa 45+2
HORNCHURCH 2
Nash 26, Higgins 54

RED ARMY: Hornchurch celebrate Liam Nash’s opener
PICTURE: Andy Futers

They upset the odds again, this time beating Darlington in the FA Trophy quarter-finals, meaning for the fifth time this season Mark Stimson’s battlers saw off a side from above them in the pyramid.
Sam Higgins’s second-half penalty earned the win for the Isthmian League Premier side after Liam Nash had put the Urchins ahead to keep their remarkable season alive.
They are now one game from Wembley and, in Mark Stimson, have a manager who has w...

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