Step 3

Fernandes seals a timely comeback

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
12 August 2018

By Neil Shoesmith
FARNBOROUGH 3
WIMBORNE TOWN 1
MID SUMMER and a season starts full of hopes, dreams and in Farnborough’s case mercifully on-time and with the core of a squad from last season.
Boro started brightly with attack on their minds, however after going close a couple of times they rode their luck once when veteran keeper Lenny Pidgeley on debut was given a yellow for a foul that sometimes sees red, before being punished on 21mins when Wimborne waltzed through the Boro defence for Toby Holmes to slot home.
Wimborne with their noses in front from that point were organised in p...

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