All square at Top Field..just!

Hitchin Town snatch a point

Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but this collection of jewels was potentially off the Christmas card list of Hitchin Town supporters since the Northamptonshire side had snatched a deserved lead and looked like inflicting a third successive home defeat on the Canaries. That would have been too much to bear, and then a third penalty in two games was awarded and this time it was converted and it saved the game and earned a point, a precious point.

Andy Peak - AFC Rushden & Diamonds

“It was a good challenge for us on a Monday night and the motivation was there with the chance to go to the top,” the Diamonds manager said. “And, to be fair, we got it pretty much right because I felt we controlled most of the game. “But we didn’t take our chances in the first half and then we have scored a well-worked goal.

“We had other chances to kill the game but then one mistake has cost us and, in the end, we were actually hanging on a little bit.

“So it is a bit frustrating. There weren’t lots wrong with the performance and we are getting punished for the little mistakes we are making but we aren’t doing the same when teams make mistakes against us.

Matt Burke and Brett Donnelly - Hitchin Town FC

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