Non-League Paper

GATE OPEN UP PLUCKY TANNERS IN THRILLER

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
12 September 2021

By Alan Anstice

MARGATE 4
LEATHERHEAD 2
MARGATE are still to taste defeat in this league campaign after a good win against a plucky Leatherhead side.
Despite the high scoring, Gate had to wait 34 minutes to lead when a Ben Greenhalgh cross was met by the long legs of Dan Thompson.
It took just a minute for the second to come, the lively James Bessey-Saldanha latching onto a poor back pass and drilled the ball home.
The Tanners’ Alexander Sami nearly nipped in after 47 minutes but Lewis Knight and Gatec keeper Pat Ohman thwarted him.
In the 52nd minute Ben Swift headed Bessey-Sal...

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