Whitley Bay 1-1 North Ferriby: Ferriby Cup debut ends in draw

By Tom Simmonds

WHITLEY BAY 1
NORTH FERRIBY 1
WHITLEY BAY and North Ferriby will face each other again in a replay on Tuesday after the two sides played out an entertaining stalemate.

It was the visitors, in the Cup for the first time as a reformed club, who broke the deadlock on 24 minutes. Danny Emerton’s pin-point cross found Danny East who guided a looping header over the diving Chris Bannon.
The hosts fired back inside ten minutes when Khalid Kharufa floated a dangerous free-kick to the back post for Jason Chanayire to head home.
Whitley Bay could then have taken the lead right on ha...

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