National League North

Fenton opens his home account in fine style

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
21 August 2022

BLYTH SPARTANS 2 GLOUCESTER CITY 0
By John Chapman

NEW Blyth manager Graham Fenton saw his side pick up their first point of the season in midweek, his homecoming going one better as Spartans picked up a merited win over Gloucester.
Second-half goals from Lewis McNall and Jordan Hickey, the latter in stoppage time, tamed the Tigers.
Jack James fired wide from an Owen Evans cross midway through the opening half, but Spartans held sway. Blyth then did everything but score in the closing stages of the first half, an off-balance Michael Richardson lifting a close-range shot over after ...

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