Macc fighting for it with heart and Sol

A VITAL away win hauled

off the bottom of the table.

Both goals for Sol Campbell’s side at came in the first half, with James Pearson and Harry Smith on target.

now prop up the division after being held to a goalless draw at home to

cruised to a 6-1 win over 10-man

who had taken the lead via a 13th-minute penalty from Ollie Palmer.

The Railwaymen turned things around before half-time as

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Bowery’s equaliser in the 36th minute was swiftly followed by an own goal from Tom Dallison.

Chris Porter and Paul Green then struck within a minute of each other before the break to make it 4-1, with Charlie Kirk adding a fifth soon after the restart.

In the 80th minute, Ibrahim Meite was shown a straight red card and Owen Dale completed the rout shortly after.

A late goal from sub Chuks Aneke gave third-placed a 1-1 home draw against

who had gone ahead on 30 minutes through Ilias Chair.

bolstered their play-off hopes with a 3-0 home win over Colchester. Matt Jay broke the deadlock before Lee Holmes and Nicky Law (below) also bagged. are a point ahead of the Grecians in sixth place after being held to a 1-1 home draw by who also harbour hopes of making the play-offs as they are a point behind the top seven. Midfielder Reece Brown put the home side ahead on 31 minutes, but Nathan Thomas equalised early in the second half. Aside from Notts County, there were also two other goalless draws involving and

Blundell Park and

and at the County Ground.

Second-placed had their home game against postponed because of a waterlogged pitch.

who saw Paul Scholes resign as manager on Thursday, were also unable to play as their home game with

was called off for the same reason.

Leaders are away at fourth-placed

tomorrow. WIGAN boss Paul Cook refused to bask in derby-day glory after putting Bolton to the sword.

Despite a much-needed win moving the Latics up two places in their survival scrap, Cook’s thoughts were with counterpart Phil Parkinson – whose side are in a perilous position.

Bolton had gone into the game knowing anything other than three points would see them slip further towards League One and from the moment Joe Garner opened the scoring inside four minutes the writing was on the wall.

Goals from Gavin Massey and Nick Powell in the space of four minutes at the beginning of the second period gave Wigan a grip on the game.

No sooner had Gary O’Neil pulled one back than Michael Jacobs made it 4-1 before Sammy Ameobi’s second consolation was swiftly followed by Leon Clarke’s bullet header.

“It was a big game for Bolton, they had to win to give themselves a realistic shot of staying up and dragging us back into it,” said Cook.

“But I must pat Phil Parkinson and his staff on the back. It’s so difficult, at times, going through what they’ve been going through.

“Week in, week out it seems to be the same stuff going round, the same cycle.

“While it’s a great night for us, a little bit of feeling has to go to Phil and his staff. Hopefully that situation gets sorted out for the benefit of Bolton Wanderers.”

The result leaves Bolton eight points adrift of safety with only eight matches to play and Parkinson, whose side were jeered by their supporters for most of the second half, said: “It was a very tough day at the office.

“It started terribly for us, but all afternoon we didn’t deal with their front players.

“If you can’t do that in a game of football you’re always going to be under pressure.

“We had chances in the game but physically we didn’t deal with them. In one versus one situations they always looked dangerous.

“I’ll take the flak as manager, as I always do, but a few individual displays today simply weren’t good enough.”