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POPPIES ARE HIT FOR FOUR

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
16 April 2017

STRATFORD T 4 KETTERING T 1
By Bryan Hale
STRATFORD are ending the campaign in style as they made it four wins and a draw from their past five matches and completed the double over Kettering.
Stratford made the perfect start taking the lead in the third minute. Ex-Poppy Will Grocott floated over a free-kick from the right and George Forsyth headed firmly past keeper Paul White.
Jamie Spencer glanced a header wide from another Grocott free-kick before the Poppies equalised on the halfhour mark when Ben Baker latched on to a through ball to slot past keeper Niall Cooper.
Stratford then missed...

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