National League South

BLUEBIRDS RETALIATE NOT ONCE BUT TWICE

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
21 January 2018

By Wil Hulbert
CHIPPENHAM T 2
DARTFORD 2
CHIPPENHAM held league leaders Dartford as they twice fought back to force a draw. Both sides had chances to win the game but Darts’ Deren Ibrahim was by far the busier keeper.
The Bluebirds opened strongly and on six minutes Andy Sandell’s shot hit the side-netting.
On the quarter-hour mark Dean Evans slipped the ball to Matt Smith whose low shot brought a diving save from Ibrahim. The Darts’ keeper then did well to palm away Nick McCootie’s effort.
The hosts should have opened the scoring on 34 minutes when Ibrahim palmed up...

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