How Stags broke their duck

You could put forward plenty of reasons for Mansfield ending their long wait for a home win, but personally I reckon it was down to the ducks.
No, I’m not going completely mad, just referring to the trio of birds who mistook the Field Mill pitch for the banks of the pond just across Quarry Lane.
Early arrivers for the game with Wrexham would have seen our feathered friends waddling around quite happily – even when the players came out for their warm-ups.
By the time the game kicked off, the ducks were nowhere to be seen, but I think they most definitely brought the luck the team was missing.
Before their appearance, the Mansfield side had lost ten and drawn the other one of their last 11 home games dating back to before the turn of the year.
Yet they arrive on the scene and the Stags, well, break their duck.
Not only that, the fortune that has been so obviously absent over the last three months returned too in the shape of a gift-wrapped penalty to set the team on their way to a 2-1 victory.
Sheer coincidence? More than likely.
But at a time when the Mansfield need all the rub of the green they can get, I, for one, would not be complaining if they make a return visit.

See Monday’s Evening Post for full analysis on tomorrow’s Mansfield-Barnet clash.