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GILBEY’S ROCKET MAKES GULLS FLY

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
12 August 2018

By Glen Eckett
CANVEY ISLAND 1
BARKING 0
CANVEY Island weathered an early storm to beat Barking on the opening day of their new Bostik North Division campaign.
Gulls keeper Harry Palmer was called into action after less than 30 seconds when captain Steve Sheehan conceded a penalty after a rash tackle on his opposite number Abs Seymour.
But Blues striker Darrell Russell struck a tame effort straight down the middle which Palmer gathered gratefully.
Canvey compounded their rivals’ misery when Mitchell Gilby struck a thunderbolt from an indirect free-kick 35- yards out to open the scorin...

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