By Craig Stoddart
DARLINGTON moved into the play-off places, Stephen Thompson scoring the only goal to inflict a rare away defeat on Brackley.
The visitors had lost just twice on the road this season, but the 200-mile journey to Blackwell Meadows perhaps took its toll on the Northamptonshire side as they were second best throughout.
Both Quakers’ firstchoice centre-backs, Gary Brown and Kevin Burgess, were unavailable due to suspension and injury respectively.
Yet they were firm at the back, Terry Galbraith and Chris Hunter stepping into the breach, and created numerous scoring opport...