One of the Biggest Games says Horton

The Macclesfield manager, Brian Horton, has said that replacing Jon Parkin would be difficult. He is hoping to get another striker in before next week's LDV game with Hereford United.

"As a manager you're always disappointed to see good players leave, but Jon is going to a good club (Hull City) and it really is a brilliant move for him."

Horton has had one bid to bring a young Premiership striker from a North-West-based club to Moss Rose on loan until the end of the season turned down.

"I spoke to his manager but the player has been on the fringe of the first-team squad and he didn't want to let him go," Horton told Manchester On-line.

He has spoken to several other forwards, but had been put off after discovering they would be ineligible for the Silkmen's LDV Vans Trophy area semi-final clash with Conference side Hereford United on Tuesday at Moss Rose, a game Horton describes as 'one of the biggest in the club's history.'

"We're just three games away from the Millennium Stadium," said Horton.

Meanwhile Hereford United will be without Daryl Taylor for the game. He has already played for Walsall in the LDV this season.

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