Northern Premier League

McDonald’s lovin’ it for Dabbers

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
19 November 2017

NANTWICH TOWN 1 WHITBY TOWN 0
By Ryan Batty
AN EARLY goal from Clayton McDonald was enough to give Nantwich Town the victory on a cold afternoon in South Cheshire.
Despite clawing back into the game in the second half, Chris Hardy’s men couldn’t find an equaliser to take a point back to Whitby. The Dabbers took the lead after four minutes as they won a free-kick on the left side of goal.
Matt Bell stepped up to take the set-piece, and floated the ball into the box towards the target man in McDonald, with his bullet header firing past Ryan Whitley, the goalkeeper who signed on lo...

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