RAMSBOTTOM United extended their unbeaten Evo-Stik Division One North run to four matches with a deserved win at Wakefield on Saturday.

The Rams, who hosted Atherton LR in the Lancashire FA Trophy first round last night, made hard work of the win against a side with the worst defensive record in the division.

They led twice and were pegged back on both occasions before Jon Robinson’s 78th-minute winner clinched all three points to move them up to 11th spot in the table.

The Rams actually had the ball in the Wakefield net eight times on the day but five were chalked off.

They controlled the game from start to finish, but some sloppy defending and the inability to avoid straying offside had them in danger of surrendering victory until Robinson struck.

The first disallowed goal came on 10 minutes when the referee blew for a foul in the run-up to the ‘goal’.

The breakthough came on 32 minutes when Lee Gaskell latched on to a flick from Jordan Hulme to hammer home.

Tom Brooks and Phil Dean saw efforts ruled out for offside before home stopper Sam Dobbs was lucky to stay on the pitch after racing out and clattering into Danny Warrender in what could have been deemed a red-card offence, but he escaped with a caution.

And things got even brighter for the hosts when they levelled a minute into added time.

Robert Bordman was left unmarked on the edge of the box and when the ball came in from the right, he turned and fired past Grant Shenton.

The Rams continued to press after the restart and regained the lead on 62 minutes when Dean converted Dominic Smalley’s cross.

Gaskell did likewise soon after only to find himself another victim of an assistant’s flag.

Eleven minutes after United’s second goal, the scores were level again and it was from another rare attack from Wakefield that Bordman grabbed his second from a free kick.

This time, it did not take long for Anthony Johnson and Bernard Morley’s side to get their noses in front again – Robinson flicking home from closerange just five minutes after Bordman’s second.

There was still time for a late scare when Bordman’s speculative 25-yard lob clipped the top of the United bar, but the visitors claimed a third successive win in all competitions.

After last night’s cup outing at the Harry Williams Riverside Stadium, the Rams are at home on Saturday in the FA Trophy first qualifying round against Worksop Town at 3pm.