Northern Premier League

Workington 1-1 Warrington Rylands: Clarke’s cracker holds up title race

THE race for the NPL West title is going down to the wire after Workington and Warrington Rylands battled out a draw at Borough Park.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
10 April 2022

DIV 1 WEST
WORKINGTON 1 WARR’TN RY’DS 1
By John Walsh

MATT FINISH: Matty Clarke, No. 3, leads the race to the Workington dugout after scoring
PICTURE: Ben Challis

Clarke 82
Bakkor 43
THE race for the NPL West title is going down to the wire after the two main protagonists battled out a draw at Borough Park.
A crowd of 1,180 didn’t see the classic that was promised between the league’s top scorers and its meanest defence.
But it was always interesting and absorbing and, in the end, a draw was a fair result.
Warrington will probably feel they had done enough to snatch the win which would ha...

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