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Familiar defeat for the troubled Tulips

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
26 November 2017

BELPER 2 SPALDING 1
By Peter Franks
SPALDING United fell to their fifth successive 2-1 defeat as Belper took all three points at home.
Belper started strongly and it took a fantastic double save by Michael Duggan to stop them from taking the lead.
But they did get the breakthrough on 37 minutes when Kieran O’Connell finished from inside the box.
A second arrived five minutes after half-time as, despite the visitors’ best efforts to clear it off the line, Alex Steadman’s effort found the net.
To their credit, Spalding did not give up with Jonny Lockie getting his name on th...

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