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Quickfire Alfie set a league 40-year best

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
2 April 2023

FANS’ FORUM

I WAS at the Eastleigh v Dorking Wanderers match on New Year’s Day when Eastleigh’s Alfie Lloyd scored a goal after 7.12 seconds. The question was asked whether this was the fastest goal in National League history, to my knowledge no-one has publicly stated whether this the case.
However, looking at the wikipedia entry for the fastest goals in football history, this comes 36th in the overall list.
The list only provides the year of the match and not the competition, but after careful research I came to the conclusion that Colin Cowperthwaite’...

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