New manager Stephen Clemence has his Barrow side riding high, third in League Two after they had won 1-0 at Harrogate.
Neo Eccleston, who is on loan from Huddersfield, scored the only goal of the game to earn the Bluebirds a first away win since December.
The 20-year-old right-back scored the game’s only goal in the 74th minute to end an 11-game run without a victory on their travels. It was Barrow’s fifth win in six games across two competitions and their only defeat was at Carlisle a fortnight ago.
Such is football that has been Carlisle’s only win of the campaign and the club has subsequently parted company with manager Paul Simpson.
Barrow had the better of things in the first half and in boxing parlance would have been ahead on points.
They were sure they had taken the lead when Niall Canavan headed in a Robbie Gotts corner but an assistant referee flagged for offside which Barrow clearly felt was a wrong decision.
It was the same route that provided Barrow with their win. It was young Eccleston who climbed sharply at the near post to head in Gotts in-swinging corner.
Harrogate could have been on terms a minute later but Barrow keeper Paul Farman, the mid-week hero in the Carabao Cup penalty shoot-out, produced a smart reflex save to keep out a shot from Matty Foulds driven in at short range
Harrogate haven’t scored in three home games and they were denied their first goal in stoppage time when Farman produced two fine saves to deny Stephen Dooley.
