By Brian Bennett

Liam Henderson notched a brace in Ashington’s 6-3 win over Lincoln United on Saturday – but the striker revealed after the game that he is mulling over his future.

The 36 year-old said: “I don’t know what I’m doing yet in terms of retirement. I haven’t made my mind up but I’m not getting any younger and times with my kids are precious. Listen, you are going to go through tough times but bearing in mind we’ve had a terrible season in terms of scrapping down the bottom, it’s the highest place we have finished in the Northern Premier League table – the best the club have ever done at this level – so has it been a successful season? It depends and everyone draws their own conclusions to that. I have thoroughly enjoyed more so the back end of the season but there are conversations to be had and if it was my last game then what a pleasure it was to sign off with two goals.”

Henderson who netted the first and last of his sides’ half dozen on Saturday added: “We probably had a bit of freedom to play with but that doesn’t always correlate to performances and Lincoln might have been on the beach. However, again because of the backroom staff, we have done our research; our background checks and if you could see what we went through before the game, then I can tell you that things came to fruition on the pitch.”