Foxes almost waste fast start

Ricci Crace started the Ware comeback in the 20th minute and Elliot King squared it immediately after half-time. He also put Ware 3-2 up in the 63rd minute, shortly after the dismissal of Ilford’s Kai Bichard.

Warren Mfula rescued Ilford with time running out and they are now three points ahead of bottom club Redbridge, though they have played two more games. Ware, in 20th place, are eight points off the bottom and look fairly safe.

Nothing was at stake in Romford’s clash with Sudbury at Ship Lane but the sides produced an entertaining game, with Romford chalking up a 5-2 victory to go with their earlier 6-3 triumph at Sudbury.

Tom Richardson’s night started badly as he missed his turn off the M25 and had to cross the Dartford Bridge to turn round, thus having to fork out £4 in tolls.

If he had trouble finding the ground, he had no trouble finding the goal once he got there, netting a very well-taken 15-minute hat-trick in the game’s first quarter. His third goal is pictured by Gavin Ellis/TGS Photo.

A spectacular long-range effort by Luke Ingram opened Sudbury’s account just after half-time but Romford went 4-1 up on 70 minutes when Richardson hit the bar and Nick Reynolds nodded in the rebound before knocking himself out, briefly, by crashing into a goalpost.

Dave Cowley’s free-kick pulled it back to 4-2 in the 78th minute and Jamie Dicks netted Boro’s fifth four minutes later. There could well have been more goals.