YORK City’s miserable season ended with a whimper as Brackley midfielder James Armson bagged a brace to secure a 2-0 home win.

In response, the Minstermen only mustered two off-target efforts, although sub Jon Parkin did have the ball in the net, only to see his header bafflingly disallowed for a foul.

Brackley had earlier taken less than a minute to win the first corner of the game, but centre-back Alex Gudger headed well off target from Shane Byrne’s delivery to the far post.

Moments later, Connor Franklin’s low cross from the left was turned towards goal by Aaron Williams, forcing a parry from Adam Bartlett with Hamza Bencherif using his body to prevent Armson from pouncing on the rebound.

City, meanwhile, missed a great chance to seize the initiative when Connor Smith and Connor Brown combined down the right to tee up a free shot from 12 yards for Sean Newton, but the skipper wastefully fired wide.

At the other end, Glenn Walker found the sidenetting from an unfavourable angle and also saw a deflected attempt bounce wide.

Armson’s edge-of-the-box, sidefooted effort then drifted over after Adriano Moke had been beaten far too easily through the right channel.

With results going their way at the break, City fans could have expected a rousing start to the second half, but their team fell behind on 52 minutes.

Bartlett got a hand to Armson’s 12-yard drive following an Aaron Williams lay-off, but could not stop the ball finding his bottom-right corner.

The Brackley midfielder almost doubled his team’s advantage from the next attack of the game, cannoning a thumping 20-yard effort off Bartlett’s right-hand post.

City were then mysteriously disallowed an equaliser just past the hour mark when Parkin, brought on after Armson’s goal, had headed powerfully past home keeper Danny Lewis from Bencherif’s long ball into the box.

For Brackley, Williams’ weak volley failed to extend Bartlett, but victory was sealed on 80 minutes when Lee Ndlovu beat Dan Parslow through the left channel, Bencherif failed to win a challenge just inside the box and Armson curled into Bartlett’s bottom-right corner.

In response, Bencherif headed well wide from a Josh Law corner, while Bartlett spared his team further embarrassment when he clawed away Joe Iaciofano’s cross as it threatened to drop under his bar.