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DARLINGTONS Wembley hopes are over. They were favourites to win today’s FA Trophy quarter-final with Hornchurch, but were second best and lost 2-1 at Blackwell Meadows. Playing the lowest-ranked team left in the competition, Quakers simply never got going and now their season is over. With the National League North campaign null and void, Darlington had only the Trophy to play for and they hoped to celebrate their 2011 Trophy win by returning to Wembley, but those hopes have been dashe...

By Ray Simpson Darlington host National League side Wealdstone at Blackwell Meadows in the fifth round of the FA Trophy this afternoon DARLINGTON manager Alun Armstrong didn’t have to go far for an insight into his team’s Buildbase FA Trophy opponents Wealdstone, who visit Blackwell Meadows today in the last 16 of the competition. His son, Luke, played a starring role when Hartlepool played Wealdstone in the National League last mo...

DARLINGTON face their longest trip since becoming a fan-owned club when they play Weymouth in the fourth round of the Buildbase FA Trophy today. The Quakers squad set off yesterday lunchtime on the daunting 350-mile trip to Dorset and stopped overnight in a Taunton hotel, with manager Alun Armstrong demanding an improvement on the 1-0 defeat at Farsley in the league on Tuesday. “We’ve got to get our fingers out for the game,” said Armstrong, who was annoyed that the heads of one or ...

DARLINGTON manager Alun Armstrong admits that getting a result at Spennymoor’s Brewery Field will be a tough ask in his side’s return local derby this afternoon. The sides drew 0-0 at Blackwell Meadows in a wind-spoilt game of very few chances on Boxing Day, and Armstrong knows that his team will be in for another tough game today. “We know that we’re going to have a difficult game, and getting a result will be a tough ask,” said Armstrong. “We had a good win on Monday again...