National League North

MAGIC JOHNSON INSPIRES LINNETS

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
27 August 2023

CHORLEY 3 KING’S LYNN TOWN 1
By Mike Neild

WITH both teams looking for their first win of the season, it was the Magpies who emerged with a convincing victory.
The Linnets were outplayed for much of the match and were so subdued that they did well to reach the break one down.
The chief destroyer was elusive Chorley wide-man Justin Johnson, who bagged a brace and was denied a hat-trick by the post.
Chorley struck the goal-frame four times and could have scored five or six. Lynn keeper Paul Jones kept the score down with some top-class saves. He tipped a Johnson piledriver ove...

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