Non-League Paper

STEWART: I’M JUST LUCKY TO BE ALIVE

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
19 July 2020

By Neil Harvey
JON STEWART has revealed he is lucky to be alive after a freak accident at work saw 11,000 volts of electricity shoot through him.
The Matlock Town goalkeeper was delivering containers to a building site when he found himself stuck in the forcefield of a huge current, flinging him 10 metres back.
The accident capped a difficult year for the former Portsmouth, AFC Bournemouth and Burnley pro keeper who was forced to sit out for a month for a breach of betting regulations, before then suffering the tragic loss of Matlock teammate Jordan Sinnott.
Now, though, things appear to be...

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