Marginson's men snatched victory from the jaws of defeat with two goals in 60 seconds in the closing stages giving them their fifth win in six games.
Simeon Bambrook's deflected 17th minute free-kick appeared to have sunk United until Jerome Wright, whose touch had taken the ball past keeper Sam Ashton, lashed in a stunning 25-yard equaliser with less than four minutes left on the clock.
And, with the home fans still celebrating, Tommy Turner then headed home Adam Carden's teasing cross to send the vast majority of the 1,986-strong Gigg Lane crowd into raptures and earn FC a victory which lifts them into the play-off places.
A delighted Marginson said: "Guiseley scored an unbelievable late equaliser when we played at their place, so maybe this one was our pay-back.
"But I still expect Guiseley to be in the mix for the play-offs, so perhaps we'll get to meet them again."
It wasn't, however, all good news for Marginson, who gave a debut to Adam Tong, signed from Bamber Bridge, as United's 24-goal top scorer Kyle Wilson was forced off after just 21 minutes with a knee injury.
Meanwhile, Stalybridge and Droylsden each boosted their Blue Square North promotion hopes with hard-fought triumphs.
Nathan Joynes' 13th minute strike was enough to secure travel experts Bridge three more precious points on the road at Harrogate.
And late goals by subs Kevin Townson and Ian Fitzpatrick gave the Bloods a 3-1 home win over Burscough after Colin Cryan had seen his 58th minute opener quickly cancelled out by the dogged visitors.
Hyde's relegation fears returned with a vengeance as they crashed 2-1 in their home basement battle with Redditch.
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F C JOHN, LADYBARN (02/02/2009 at 12:57)
Drifter, Mancunia (03/02/2009 at 00:29)
Free Red, Manchester (03/02/2009 at 12:13)
Directions: By Car: M6 Junction 16 A500 towards Nantwich. Over 4 roundabouts onto A51 towards Nantwich Town Centre, through traffic lights and over railway crossing. Over next roundabout then left at next roundabout past Morrisons supermarket on right. Continue over roundabout through traffic lights. Ground on right at next set of traffic lights.
By Train: Takes approximately 60 minutes from Manchester Piccadilly (change at Crewe), followed by a 15 minute walk. Outbound - Manchester Piccadilly to Crewe – 08:34 10:34 12:34 Crewe to Nantwich – 09:27 11:26 13:26 Return - Nantwich to Crewe – 17:07 19:07 21:07 Crewe to Manchester Piccadilly - 17:30 20:00 22:00. Check the FC United official site before for the pitch inspection info in case the match is off
Free Red, Manchester (05/02/2009 at 13:01)
The FC office received an e-mail this week from Kurt.
He wrote, ‘Today I got a rather unusual message from the Sports Editor of the Oberhessische Presse (the local newspaper for Marburg and the surrounding area). He is the chairman of the jury that chooses our local sportsman, sportswoman and sport team of the year. He wanted me to come along the following Tuesday to the Restaurant in the Ahrens Department Store. That is where the presentations were going to take place. The jury had decided to award me a special prize because of my role in organising the friendly between FC United and a combined team of VfB Marburg and Sportfreunde Richtsberg and for the design and implementation of the related programme which included a demonstration through the town and a call for anti-racist banners.’
Ahrens Department Store is directly opposite the site of Marburg’s synagogue. The synagogue was burned down during the infamous Kristalnacht of 1938. There is now a small park where the synagogue once stood and a plaque on which the inscription begins, ‘in memory of our Jewish fellow citizens.’ Even before the rise to power of the Nazis, Marburg was a hotbed of anti-Semitism and elected the first MP to the German Reichstag who represented a small party called the Anti-Semitic Party.
Today, Germany faces fresh challenges from the extreme right, playing on fears about immigrants and refugees in Germany. This anti-foreigner movement contains disturbing echoes of the racism of the Nazis. FC United was, therefore, delighted to lend its support to those voices in German society who are seeking to drown out the racists by cooperating with Kurt and the two football teams he introduced us to. We hope that this will be start of a special relationship between us, the town of Marburg and its sporting community.
Kurt continues, ‘I am pleased to accept the prize and I will of course be wearing my FC United scarf when I do so. In my acceptance speech I will have the opportunity once again to address the issue of the fight against racism in sport and society. I know that a large part of the credit for the award should go to FC United. After all, you are the club that developed the idea which I merely helped to support. I, therefore, thank you for the outstanding support you gave me around the match last year.’
On our website, we would like to thank Kurt publicly for his work last year. His award is richly deserved and we salute him also.