JACK Muldoon's extra-time stunner secured a semi-final spot for Harrogate Town in the FA Trophy at the end of a dramatic 3-2 win over Fylde.
Town had come back from a goal down after trailing through Jordan Williams' opener, with Lloyd Kerry and Muldoon scoring within a minute, which had looked like enough for victory, until Luke Burke's stoppage time thunderbolt forced extra time.
With 103 minutes gone, Muldoon hammered in the winner, beating Sam Hornby from 30 yards.
Town limited their opponents to no shots at goal in the first half, but with the wind in their favour will have been disappointed to be going into the break still on level terms.
Cracknell could do nothing to prevent the hosts taking the lead from the resulting corner as Williams volleyed home from inside the six yard box.
Muldoon and Jon Stead came on in the 67th minute and the decision paid dividends as six minutes later Muldoon got between two Fylde defenders and pulled out Kerry to place the ball in the bottom left corner.
Muldoon found the same corner as Kerry at the second attempt soon after but then Burke sent a rocket past Cracknell in stoppage time to force extra-time.
And Muldoon picked his head up 30 yards out and sent a dipping effort past Hornby to restore his side's advantage and inflict more damage to his former side – to seal the semi-final place.
Harrogate: Cracknell, G Smith, Burrell, Thomson, Emmett (Muldoon 67), Kiernan (Diamond 93), Bradley, Kerry (Hall 117), W Smith, Harratt (Stead 67), Kouogun. Subs (not used): Belshaw, Falkingham.
STEVE Watson has again called on his players to grab games by the scruff of the neck after York City snatched a 1-1 draw with Curzon Ashton.
The Minstermen saw a lot of the ball at Bootham Crescent, but did little with it, and fell behind to George Broadbent's 72nd-minute strike from inside the area.
It needed a slip from keeper Cameron Mason at the other end and sharp attacking play from Jordan Burrow to pull back a stoppage-time equaliser in the frustrating encounter.
"I thought we started quickly, and I really was buoyed by it. That's the way we set out to do it," Watson told the York Press.
"But midway through the second half, you could tell the way they had set up with the amount of time they were taking for things and I thought we allowed ourselves to get stuck in a bit of a slow rut.
"The balls that went into the front men just came back. We couldn't get up the pitch, we couldn't get people in holes because things were going that slowly at times they had 10 behind the ball by the time we got into positions.
"We played at far too much of a slow tempo and allowed what they were doing to affect us.
York City: Jameson, Griffiths, Tait, McNulty (Kempster 68), Newton, Ferguson, Bond (York 72), Moke, Jones (Green 56), Burrow, Maguire. Subs (not used): King, McLaughlin.
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