Northern Premier League

JONES KEEPS WITTON TICKING

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
10 March 2019

By Andy Simpson
WITTON ALBION 1
GRANTHAM TOWN 0
WITTON Albion celebrated a victory they deserved against Grantham Town but a breakthrough didn’t arrive until eight minutes from time.
Will Jones stayed calm to score a drab game’s decisive goal, side-stepping a defender’s sliding challenge before steering the ball past goalkeeper Sam Andrews.
After their previous attack, when Osebi Abadaki’s angled effort scraped a post on its way past, Carl Macauley’s men could be forgiven for wondering if it would be their day.
And yet the margin of victory might have been wide...

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