Northern Premier League

Gladiators leapfrog rivals

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
23 April 2023

MARINE 0 MATLOCK TOWN 1
By Jeff Long

MATLOCK clinched the final play-off position in the NPL Premier with a gutsy single goal victory on the road and the other results required going their way.
With Radcliffe and Hyde United both losing, the door was left ajar for the Gladiators to extend their season.
The opening period came and went with little incident - Dan Bradley blasting over the bar the best of the opening exchanges. Bayleigh Passant made a comfortable save in the Mariners goal when Jamie Sharman nodded a Reece Styche cross goalwards, but moments later Archie White won the b...

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