THERE was to be no fairy tale return to Radcliffe Borough for former player Steve Foster on his second debut for the club as his new team crashed to a 4-1 defeat at home to 10-man Warrington Town.

The visitors opened the scoring after only two minutes when a free kick from captain David Mannix floated into the box from the left deceived Boro keeper Chris Cheetham and went straight into the top corner.

Five minutes later Craig Robinson doubled Warrington's lead, powering home a header after being left unchallenged in the box.

Boro’s Matthew Davies had a good chance to pull a goal back but his shot from 10 yards went wide of the target.

Cheetham made some amends for his earlier mistake with a smart double save on 25 minutes to keep Boro in the game.

And the home side went on to reduce the arrears five minutes before the break when David Brown headed home a Danny Lambert free kick.

Andy thoughts of a comeback were scotched three minutes after the restart when man of the match Nathan Burke restored Warrington’s two-goal cushion with a superb 20-yard volley into the bottom corner.

Robinson gave Boro some hope after being shown a straight red card on 60 minutes after elbowing Foster in the face.

Lambert, who put in a tireless display in the middle of the park, put substitute Elliott Rokka through on goal but his effort was blocked.

And Cheetham capped a bad day in the closing moments, losing the ball to Warrington striker Ben Collins who tucked it away to secure all three points.

Boro travel to Mossley tomorrow night still nine points outside the Evo-Stik Division One North drop zone, but second-bottom New Mills have three games in hand.

Radcliffe Borough: Cheetham, Brown, Woods, Lafferty, McGrath, Lambert, Beadle, Davies, Foster (Burey 70), McMahon, Van Gils (Rokka 56): Subs Hindle, Landregan, Sherlock.

Attendance: 149