As City chairman Geoffrey Richmond celebrated promotion to the Premiership he couldn't help but spare a thought for his old club Scarborough who lost their Football league status 24 hours earlier.

Richmond was at the helm of the East Coast club in their early league days before joining City and admits: "I still care fondly for them."

The town of Scarborough is still coming to terms with their cruel luck.

And the club are to lodge a protest to the Football Association and the Football League over Carlisle signing goalkeeper Jimmy Glass after deadline day.

Glass scored a dramatic injury-time winner for Michael Knighton's team against Plymouth on Saturday to condemn Scarborough to the Conference.

Scarborough chairman John Russell said: "The people in town have been urging me to make a protest about this.

"Glass was signed as a goalkeeper and yet has put us out of the league as a goalscorer.

"When you consider that we were not allowed to sign a goalkeeper when Tony Elliott was injured in November because of our transfer embargo it seems there is one rule for us and another one for Michael Knighton."

Scarborough had to play 11 games in mid-season with inexperienced goalkeepers until they were able to sign Tony Parks at the end of February and during this spell won only three games.

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