Dominating a game with free flowing football is all well and good, but if you fail to create in the final third and worse still fail to put the chances you do create away, the consequences are likely to be grave.

Carlisle may well have won against a poorer side than York City. But the Minstermen, putting aside their considerable financial difficulties which threaten their very existence, are nothing less than committed. Terry Dolan’s side defied the odds of possession to win the battle where it counts most, converting chances. In doing so they chalked up an impressive statistic of a fourth win on the bounce.

Carlisle boss Roddy Collins was less than complimentary about the attitude of his players after the game and said: “This was probably the most disappointing result since I came to the club. Not in the way we were beaten but the attitude of the players.

“Watching the warm up I wasn’t happy and it continued right through the game. You can talk about the chances we created and the set pieces we didn’t defend, but that’s not were we lost it. We lost when we stepped off that bus. But it won’t happen again. I didn’t like what I saw. Maybe it’s because we are signing good quality players that our players think they just have to turn up to win. Today we just turned off mentally. We reacted too late to every situation, therefore we worked twice as hard to what we should have done.”

York had early chances with Stephen Brackstone having a shot blocked by a last ditch Jon McArthy tackle and Jon Parkin firing narrowly over from 35 yards.

On loan Sunderland striker Michael Reddy then had a shot pushed round the post by Matty Glennon before Carlisle showed any signs of getting into the game.

Richie Foran laid a ball off into the path of Mark Summerbell but Fettis got down well to save.

The increasingly busy Fettis then did well to beat out a Leon Osman shot and then bravely saved again at Osman’s feet from a Craig Farrell through ball. Farrell was then unlucky himself, seeing a curled effort go narrowly wide.

But the Cumbrians were left to rue those missed chances as York snatched the lead a minute before the break. Former Carlisle favourite Darren Edmondson did well to get to the byline to pull a cross back to the feet of Reddy whose shot took a deflection past Matty Glennon.

After the break Lee Bullock shot over and Graham Potter fired a free kick wide for the Minstermen but the Cumbrians went closest when McGill fired over from a good position after Osman and Brian Shelley had combined well.

Foran then had a shot blocked and Paul Robinson’s shot from the rebound was acrobatically turned for a corner by Fettis.

Carlisle were now in full flow, Foran heading wide a great opportunity from McArthy’s cross. Foran then turned provider with a perfect cross to Robinson who inexplicably volleyed over the bar from three yards.

But the former Magpie made amends on 74 minutes when McArthy combined with McGill to set Robinson clear before slotting home off the body of Fettis.

At this stage there looked to be only one winner but five minutes later the Cumbrians were caught cold. Their defence failed to clear a loose ball from a Brackstone corner, Duffield reacting the quickest to hook a shot over his shoulder into the bottom corner.

As Carlisle pushed forward for an equaliser they were stretched again at the back but Reddy’s shot hit a post and Edmonson’s follow up clipped the bar.

In the closing minutes Fettis rounded off a man of the match performance for York, brilliantly turning a Farrel shot round the post.