Match Reports

Though written off by many at the start of the season, the core group of players had the belief that Gainsborough Trinity could be up there – and on April 15th ensured their place in the top five teams in the 2022/23 Pitching In Northern Premier League. Securing the point that was needed to claim a play-off spot (with a game to spare) through a hard fought point on the road at fellow...

Gainsborough made it a very happy Easter on Bank Holiday Monday, putting Liversedge to the sword at the Dave Longstaff Martin and Co Arena, in front of a bumper crowd. Tyrell Sellars-Fleming netting his first for the Holy Blues, with Clayton Donaldson and Liam Waldock also on target for the league hot-shots.

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A dogged, determined performance from Neal Bishop’s Holy Blues saw Trinity return from Lancaster City with all three points in the bag, thanks to two goals from corners in three first half minutes to turn the game on it’s head. Gainsborough digging deep to secure a much craved victory to pull three points clear of sixth placed Hyde United in the race for an end of season play-off...

The draw specialists played out a stalemate at the Northolme as Gainsborough Trinity came back from a goal down on the stroke of half time to keep up the pressure on the other sides in the play-off chase. In an engaging Northern Premier League encounter that ebbed and flowed from first minute to last, the Holy Blues could have grabbed all three points late on, but were made to settle for...

On a lively pitch that made good football difficult for both sides, the Holy Blues dug in to come back from going behind late on, to grab a share of the spoils. Going on to nearly snatch a late winner, that with a Russian assistant referee, may have stood. Trinity maintaining fourth spot in the table, by virtue of a superior goal difference. Bailey Conway shook off the ill-effects from...

Unbelievable scenes at the final whistle as Fraser Preston bundled home in the third of three added minutes to secure all three points for the Holy Blues, at home to Marine. Trinity moving into the play-offs with six to play. The play-off dream remaining firmly in sight for Neal Bishop and his young Gainsborough Trinity side. Blues’ boss, Bishop upped the ante with an attacking switch...

The Holy Blues tasted defeat for the first time in seven games, as Nantwich took all three points on their visit to the Dave Longstaff Martin and Co Arena. Steve Hewitt's strike fifteen minutes from time the only goal of the game. The result leaving the Blues with much to do in the final seven games, to secure one of the four play-off places up for grabs. An excellent crowd of 706 were in...

Gainsborough Trinity extended the unbeaten run to seven games, with a composed, assured two nil victory over Warrington Rylands at the Dave Longstaff Martin and Co Arena. The victory, Trinity’s third successive victory, and second clean sheet on the bounce reducing the gap from the play-offs to a solitary point with eight games to play.

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The Holy Blues put in a resolute, resilient performance to secure three massive points away from home, to go one point off the play-off places with nine to play in the Pitching In Northern Premier League. Liam Waldock’s eighteenth of the season, his fifteenth in the league, the only goal of the game, less than ninety seconds into the second half, enough to separate the sides. Blues’...