FOREST GREEN ROVERS 0 SOUTHPORT 1
A MISERABLE seventh home game without a win leaves Forest Green pining for the end of the season.
Chris Stokes' own goal 14 minutes from time massively enhanced Southport's prospects of survival in the Blue Square Bet Premier.
Fortune had smiled on Rovers in the 31st minute when Andy Owens' cross-shot seemed to catch everyone by surprise and came back off the far post.
Shaun Whalley looked the visitors' most likely provider of a match-winning moment, and he let fly with a 25-yarder that dipped on its way over the crossbar.
He then brought the game's first save from home keeper Sam Russell with a curling free-kick that needed tipping over.
The resulting Karl Ledsham corner brought the deciding goal, as a whipped near-post delivery skimmed off the unfortunate Stokes' head and nestled in the far corner of Russell's net.
See Monday's Citizen for Peter Orchard's match overview and match reaction.
Forest Green: Russell; Asafu-Adjaye, Turley, Oshodi, Stokes (Hodgkiss 90); Forbes, Bangura, Klukowski; Burns (Vieira 80), Connolly, Odubade (Williams 77); Subs not used: Bennett, Bulman.
A MISERABLE seventh home game without a win leaves Forest Green pining for the end of the season.
Chris Stokes' own goal 14 minutes from time massively enhanced Southport's prospects of survival in the Blue Square Bet Premier.
Fortune had smiled on Rovers in the 31st minute when Andy Owens' cross-shot seemed to catch everyone by surprise and came back off the far post.
Shaun Whalley looked the visitors' most likely provider of a match-winning moment, and he let fly with a 25-yarder that dipped on its way over the crossbar.
He then brought the game's first save from home keeper Sam Russell with a curling free-kick that needed tipping over.
The resulting Karl Ledsham corner brought the deciding goal, as a whipped near-post delivery skimmed off the unfortunate Stokes' head and nestled in the far corner of Russell's net.
See Monday's Citizen for Peter Orchard's match overview and match reaction.
Forest Green: Russell; Asafu-Adjaye, Turley, Oshodi, Stokes (Hodgkiss 90); Forbes, Bangura, Klukowski; Burns (Vieira 80), Connolly, Odubade (Williams 77); Subs not used: Bennett, Bulman.