TOP scorer Jermaine Clarke netted United's winner in stoppage-time leaving the Bracknell boss fuming at Kidderminster referee Adam Watts.

The visiting manager, like the referee's assessor, felt that Clarke should have been dismissed for his part in a 67th minute fracas that saw Leon Blake red-carded and the Evesham hero only shown a yellow card.

The hosts had come closest to breaking the stalemate two minutes earlier when Richard Ball blasted the ball against the crossbar but it took the gallant ten-man Robins just three minutes to level Gavin Smith's 51st minute opener when Clarke nodded a long ball over Andrew Poyser.

It looked like more home points would be tossed away but a generous amount of added time saw Clarke latch on to a pass from Stuart Hamilton and slip the ball past the advancing Poyser for his 12th league goal of the season.

The three points won't convince the home fans that Evesham will be in the promotion picture in April but the win was all that really mattered on an afternoon when a couple of Division One West title rivals showed their pedigree.

This weekend's opponents Mangotsfield stayed a point clear of Dave Busst's side after a 3-0 win at Burnham, while Yate Town crushed United's new year conquerors Sutton Coldfield 5-1.

Busst was again forced to shuffle his pack with Lee Knight, Gavin O'Toole and Neil O'Sullivan absent but the hosts seemed to do better with just ten men after seemingly being unable to find a way past Saturday's lowly visitors.

Common Road had to wait until the final minute of the first half for the first clear-cut chance when Poyser saved well from Clarke. The resulting corner, swung in by Simon Fitter, was volleyed goalwards by Ball but the Bracknell goalkeeper was again equal to it.

With the elements in their favour, United were rocked when Town took the lead as Smith was left unmarked to head in a free-kick from Danny Oliphant - a fourth successive goal conceded from a set-piece.

Strangely, Blake's dismissal worked in United's favour and, after Clarke's leveller, the late introduction of Danny Williams pepped up a resilient home side who left it late to win at home for the first time in four matches.