TWO-GOAL Jack Byrne sparked a storming second-half fightback as Kidderminster Harriers revived their play-off hopes with a crucial 2-1 win against fellow contenders Fleetwood Town last night.

It was a must-win for Harriers, who move to within one point of the fifth-placed Cod Army in the Blue Square Bet Premier table but Harriers seemed to have had their chips at half-time.

Fleetwood had stunned the hosts at Aggborough by taking the lead on 38 minutes with a goal all of Harriers’ making. Home full-back Lee Vaughan’s clearance whizzed across his own penalty area to the opposite side and Jamie Mullan controlled the errant ball and smashed a low show past keeper Danny Lewis and two back-pedalling defenders.

Harriers, however, turned the game on its head with two goals inside a rip-roaring three minute-spell.

The equaliser came on 53 minute and had an undoubted element of fortune, though Byrne wasn’t complaining.

Matty Blair won a 50-50 challenge 30 yards from the Fleetwood goal and Byrne’s instinctive volley took a deflection which sent the ball looping over keeper Danny Hurst.

Three minutes Byrne was again in the right place, timing his run into the six-yard box to meet Callum Gittings’ in-swinging corner with a glancing header for his seventh goal of the season.

It was frantic stuff after that.

Lee Morris, Keith Briggs and sub Nick Wright could have added a Harriers’ third.

At the other end, Fleetwood cranked up the pressure without really testing keeper Danny Lewis before they had George Donnelly dismissed with moments left for a high challenge on Vaughan.