Non-League Paper

CURZON ASHTON 4 BLYTH SPARTANS 4

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
22 September 2019

By Dave Jones
CALLUM Saunders’ stoppage time strike kept Curzon Ashton in the FA Cup as they shared eight goals with Blyth Spartans.
Saunders opened the scoring for Curzon in the fifth minute when he broke free from the Blyth defence to calmly lift the ball over keeper Mark Foden.
But on 26 minutes Blyth got back into the game when Oliver Scott reacted quickest to a ball coming back off the bar.
But the hosts were ahead again on the stroke of half-time when Luke Merrill bagged his first.
Two quickfire goals from Callum Roberts put the visitors ahead but Merrill struck again to make it...

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