CHELMSFORD City hope they are the team to emerge from the pack just behind the top two and make themselves favourites for second spot as they take-on Hampton & Richmond Borough.

CHELMSFORD City hope they are the team to emerge from the pack just behind the top two and make themselves favourites for second spot as they take-on Hampton & Richmond Borough.

Hampton & Richmond currently occupy second spot after a sensational run of results, while the Clarets, after an indifferent run of form, have dropped to fourth.

Victory at the Beveree would close the four-point gap behind Hampton to just a single point though, with City still yet to meet Alan Devonshire's side at Melbourne before the end of the campaign.

For full Essex non-league preview see Saturday's East Anglian Daily Times.