With nothing at stake for the visitors they were able to enjoy the party, and two goals in the last 10 minutes provided a fitting climax to their season.

But Sutton, who went into the match still with an outside chance of finishing third, made it a compelling end-to-end contest which, until those last 10 minutes, could have gone either way.

In the event, even had the Snipes won, Calverton's victory at Blidworth would have ended their hopes of third place but they have all but mathematically ensured fourth. The only result that could deny them would be the bizarre event of losing their last game at home to struggling Stanton Ilkeston by 12 clear goals.

The Snipes were quickly into their stride, with Matt Lane turning past Alex Wilford before crossing for Peter Stubley to head on to the well placed Carl Longmore, who squandered a great chance to give the home side an early lead.

Stubley then played a slide rule pass to Lane, whose snap shot was turned around the post by Ollerton keeper Neil McLafferty.

The corner was easily dealt with, and Ollerton responded in style with Tony Buchanan forcing a corner off Danny Love.

And the visitors had another opportunity when Chris Beard escaped the attentions of Shaun Archbold, but his cross caught Dean Hankey just offside.

Sutton then broke through Archbold, whose crossfield ball found Longmore, but the striker's poor pass was intercepted by Chris Baugh who cleared upfield.

Keeper Richard Fenn came to the Snipes' aid in the 16th minute, tipping Craig Stanton's shot over the bar, and 10 minutes later McLafferty dealt ably with Archbold's free kick.

Hankey then swept down the left for Ollerton before delivering a low cross into the area which Archbold, under pressure from Beard, hooked clear.

And just before half time Archbold won a corner off Baugh, but Kyle Ludlow's flag kick was cleared away.

Ollerton pressed early in the second half, but Sutton came back at them, and after the home defence had dealt with another Archbold free kick, Stanton conceded a corner from which Stubley's rising shot just cleared the bar.

However, Ollerton broke the deadlock in the 81st minute. Substitute Wayne O'Hare escaped down the left before knocking the ball over the defence to Lee Wilson, whose low shot went across Fenn and into the bottom far corner.

Then two minutes into stoppage time, with Sutton pushing for an equaliser, a long ball out of the Ollerton defence reached Beard, who ran on to drive a low shot past the advancing Fenn.

SUTTON: Fenn, Love, Archbold, Hadley, Baylis (Wakelin), Weedon, Shiels, Ludlow (Senior), Longmore, Stubley (Cresswell), Lane.
OLLERTON: McLafferty, Baugh, Evans, Mitchell (North), Wilford, J. Allan, Stanton, Buchanan, Hankey (Wilson), Beard, Grayson (O'Hare).
REFEREE: Rob Townsend of Collingham.
MEN OF THE MATCH: Sutton – Shaun Archbold; Ollerton – Neil McLafferty.