Man of the match Glyn Dyer attempts to regain his feet after a tussle with James Coquelin. (Pictures by Steve Sarre, 0696092)

Vale Rec 0, North 1

THEIR neighbours Vale Rec made it tough for them, but North eventually got their just deserts to lift the Stranger Cup on Tuesday at the Corbet Field.

For the 70 minutes that this Grand Fort Road was a stalemate, it was odds-on that a solitary goal would win it and so it proved.

Craig Young grabbed the winner – a goal made by the quality of man-of-the-match Glyn Dyer down the left flank – to leave his delighted coach Mick Le Prevost carrying the silverware across the road not long after the final whistle.

‘I said beforehand that if we turned up and played as well as we can, we would win the game, and that’s exactly what happened,’ Le Prevost said.

‘We were superior to them and in terms of chances we created far more.

‘I said to the lads at half-time that we had had four or five chances to every one of theirs, but we needed to take one.

‘We kept bombarding their goal, finally we got the breakthrough and I am really pleased for the players.’