A SUPERB last minute goal from Dave Flitcroft earned the Shakers three valuable points and hammered another nail into Cambridge's relegation coffin, dropping them into League Two's bottom position.

But, arguably the most important goal of the day came from a player who was not in the starting line-up, Jon Newby.

The striker admitted to being fuming at 1.30pm when the team was announced and he was on the bench.

He made his point in the best way possible with an equalising goal that cancelled out Iwan Roberts' effort that had given the visitors a 1-0 half-time lead.

With goalkeeper Glyn Garner, defender Colin Woodthorpe, midfielder Dwayne Mattis and striker Chris Porter all back after injury, the struggling Shakers made a bright start against a buoyant Cambridge side that had won their last two games.

Bury took the game to Cambridge but the visitors took the lead against the run of play just before the half hour mark when the ball broke kindly for Roberts who steered it home from close range.

Five minutes later Barrow substituted Savage for Newby.

Nine minutes of the second half had elapsed when Newby struck, getting on the end of a headed flick from Porter to volley first time into the top corner.

Kazim-Richards saw a header from a Simon Whaley cross fly narrowly wide while goalkeeper John Ruddy, who is to join Everton for £200,000 in the summer, wil not have impressed Everton's goalkeeping coach Chris Woods when he mishandled a wicked, inswinging corner from Kennedy.

Fortunately for the youngster, Tom Newey was on hand to hack the ball off the line.

It looked as though a share of the spoils was on the cards until Flitcroft's intervention, crashing home a stinging 25-yard effort after being set up by Kazim-Richards.

The goalscorer, and all his teammates, instinctively ran over to Barrow in the dugout to celebrate the goal in a show of unity and relief at ending an eight-game winless sequence.

Bury: Garner, Whaley, Unsworth, Fitzgerald, Woodthorpe, Kennedy, Mattis, Flitcroft, Savage (Newby 34), Porter, Kazim-Richards. Subs not used: Collinge, Scott, Harkins and Barry-Murphy. Att: 2,437.