THERE was a dramatic Bradford derby between Albion Sports and Thackley last night.

Lowly hosts Albion looked set for a vital victory when Jaydan Sandhu’s goal just before the break gave them an advantage they held for a long time.

But Thackley roared back in spectacular fashion in the final 15 minutes, with Ben Grech-Brooksbank’s brace sandwiching a Chris Lever strike, as the visitors won 3-1.

That moves in-form Thackley up to fifth ahead of the weekend games, with Albion down in 17th.

Jamal Stewart went close for Albion early on, but Luke Wilson in the Thackley goal made a fine stop, spreading himself well.

Grech-Brooksbank then missed a quartet of chances, with the best one of those seeing him head over from Albert Ibrahimi’s deflected cross.

After Lever struck one just wide on the turn, Albion made the visitors pay for their profligacy in the 40th minute.

The ball found Sandhu on the edge of the box, and he finished nicely from there to give his side the lead.

After an hour, Ibrahimi saw his shot deflected over, before Owen Murphy forced a good save out of Albion stopper George Clarke.

Grech-Brooksbank was then denied by Clarke once more, but he eventually got the better of him in the 77th minute.

A corner was only half cleared, and Alex Marsh crossed the ball back in for Grech-Brooksbank to finish from close range.

Lever curled one into the bottom corner from the edge of the box to give the visitors the lead after 83 minutes, and Grech-Brooksbank made the game safe moments later, getting on the end of Lawrance Hunter’s free-kick from the left to score.

Mid-table Brighouse Town suffered a bruising 4-1 defeat at high-flying Marske United in the NPL East Division on Tuesday.

Craig Gott opened the scoring for the hosts, before Adam Wheatley made it two after 33 minutes.

James Fairley increased Marske’s lead just after the break, before Wheatley’s own goal saw Brig pull one back.

But Glen Butterworth netted for the home side at the death to seal the three points once and for all.