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Big gun Aaron is laying down the Law for Poppies

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
1 October 2017

By Matt Badcock
AARON O’CONNOR
THE BIG INTERVIEW
KETTERING TOWN STRIKER

POPPY POWER: Aaron O’Connor and his Kettering team-mates are flying high in the Southern Premier
PICTURE: Mike Capps

WHEN Aaron O’Connor fired the ball into the Wembley net to guarantee Newport County’s Conference promotion in 2013, it also returned the striker to the Football League after 11 years of trying to get back there.
He came close with Rushden & Diamonds and Luton Town. But it was the Welsh club, by his own admission he hesitated to join, where he finally achieved it thanks to...

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