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Banbury United 2-1 Scarborough Athletic: Seadogs sunk by Puritans revival

Banbury boss Andy Whing saw his side win the battle of two recently promoted teams and then backed Ben Acquaye to play in the Football League soon.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
25 September 2022

By Dave Pearce

BANBURY UTD 2

Acquaye 73, Parsons 82
SCARBOROUGH 1

Weledji 42

SHEER GLEE: Harry Parsons celebrates his winning goal with team-mate Jak Hickman
PICTURE: Gary Learmouth

COOL FINISH: Banbury’s Harry Parsons scores the winner

BANBURY boss Andy Whing saw his side win the battle of two recently promoted teams and then backed Ben Acquaye to play in the Football League soon.
Acquaye scored United’s first before Harry Parsons netted a late winner. Whing told The NLP: “The first half was OK, but we dominated the game and they defended well.
“In the second half we got better,...

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