Non-League Paper

OF ALL THE GREATS, I’D SAY STREVS IS MY NO.1

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
19 July 2020

CRAIG Mackail-Smith won international caps for Scotland. Andre Gray has scored 46 Premier League goals and cost Watford £18.5m.
But despite playing alongside both men, Paul Benson ranks current Eastleigh boss Ben Strevens as his best-ever strike partner.
Strevens, 40, joined Dagenham & Redbridge from Crawley Town in 2006 and scored 34 goals in 111 games in tandem with Benson.
He joined Brentford in 2009 and also played for Wycombe Wanderers and Gillingham before retiring in 2018.

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