Mansfield Town 2 v Southport 2 - Blue Square Premier

Tuesday 5th April 2011, at Field Mill, Quarry Lane, Mansfield
Blue Square Bet Premier
Mansfield Town (2) 2
(Conor Higginson 30, Louis Briscoe 44)
Southport (0) 2
(Aaron Turner 57, Matt McGinn 83 pen)
Admission £15, Programme £3,
Attendance 1467 (away support 38)
Mansfield Town: Grof, Istead, Naylor, Foster, Stonehouse, Higginson (Hall 88), Thompson, Murray, Medley, Connor, Briscoe (O'Rafferty 79).
Subs Not Used: Collett, Sandwith, Preece.

Southport: McMillan, Williams, Marsh-Evans, Davis (Flynn 58), McGinn, Kissock, Turner, Moogan, Ledsham (Whalley 46), Daly, McNeil.
Subs Not Used: Dickinson, Tony Gray, Blakeman.
The Stags were cruising when they went in at the interval 2-0 ahead and on 54 minutes they were awarded a penalty when Adam Murray was felled in the box and it all looked over for Southport.
However, Paul Connor didn't strike the spot kick particularly well and Tony McMillan saved it with some ease.

McMillan pushes Connor's penalty away to his left

This was the turning point of the game and in the end Mansfield held out for a draw, when it had looked for all the world as if they were going to give Southport a proper good hiding at one stage.
Maybe some of the Mansfield players concentration wasn't all it should have been because their minds were elsewhere ...