Kyle Lightbourne's honesty has left the Bermudian striker marooned on 99 league goals.

The Macclesfield Town frontman was initially credited with his side's opener in the 2-1victory over Oxford United on Tuesday night.

But some observers felt the 35-yard strike had struck teammate Matthew Tipton on the way into the net and afterwards Lightbourne agreed.

As a result the player still needs one more for a century of goals since arriving in England with Scarborough in December 1992.

At the end of the Third Division match at Moss Rose, Lightbourne, Tipton and the match referee discussed the goal and it was decided to give the official credit to Tipton.

Macclesfield spokesman Colin Garlick said: "I have spoken to both players as well as the referee and Matthew is claiming the decisive touch.

"Kyle admits that without this touch his strike could well have been saved and the referee agreed with this.

"This means that Kyle remains on 99 career goals in the Football League."

Lightbourne will get another chance to achieve the landmark 100 on Saturday when Macclesfield play host to Shrewsbury.

The only way is up for Manchester City following their victory over Birmingham at the weekend, Bermudian striker Shaun Goater has declared.

"I think we all now feel that everyone and everything is pulling in the same and the correct direction," said Goater. "The win over Birmingham is a great base from which we can now push on and climb the table.

"We know we are much better than a bottom three side but the only place you can prove that is on the pitch.

"The overriding feeling in the dressing room before we went to St. Andrews was that we had let down the gaffer, the fans and ourselves with a couple of the performances we had produced.

"The manager has always maintained that he has great faith in us and that is something that we appreciate because you need that support and backing but we still have to go out and prove worthy of that.

"Sometimes it is just all about grafting and that is what we did so well at Birmingham."