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BUTCHER CUTS AN UNLIKELY CORNER

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
23 February 2020

DIVISION 1 ROUND-UP
By Nick Wilson
A TIGHT match of few chances between Basingstoke Town and Paulton Rovers was eventually settled by Ed Butcher’s corner 15 minutes from time as the visitors triumphed 1-0.
Both teams needed the points for different reasons with Rovers chasing promotion while relegation-threatened Basingstoke sit just one place and two points above Barnstaple Town.
And it was the visitors who found a way through while Basingstoke were temporarily down to ten men with defender Scott Armsworth being sent to the dugout for a change of shirt.
Butcher had thumped a post in ...

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