Reigning Champion Lost to Ashfield

In the penultimate match of this season, the already-reigning-champion Grantham-1 lost to Ashfield after solid but mediocre performance.
The match was actually lost on the board 4 when Ivan David quite stubbornly kept refusing an offered draw despite the fact that he was running short of time and his advantage which he had had initially, slowly but gradually disappeared. He blundered in complex position when both player had just less that five minutes to go but at this point of game it was Neil Graham who had the upper hand. 
A rather unpleasant result cannot change anything on the fact that Grantham has already won the league.

Ashfield-1		2:3	Grantham-1
Halfpenny G	189	½:½	Mangione C	199
Burke S	166	½:½	Birtwistle N	184
Jarvis D	164	½:½	Payne N	186
Graham N	145	1:0	David I	161
Sayer R	120	½:½	Mason B	138