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Barnet 0-0 FC Halifax Town: Bees are held but grateful to Walker

Barnet dropped their first points of the season at The Hive with a hard-working and well-drilled Halifax fully deserving of a share of the spoils in an entertaining scoreless draw.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
24 September 2023

By David Bloomfield

BARNET 0

FC HALIFAX T 0
BARNET dropped their first points of the season at The Hive with a hard-working and well-drilled Halifax fully deserving of a share of the spoils in an entertaining scoreless draw.
Goalkeeper Laurie Walker was the Bees’ hero, saving a first-half penalty from Jamie Stott and then keeping out Ryan Galvin with a fine double save at the death.
But Dean Brennan’s high-fliers couldn’t take advantage with marvin Armstrong missing a sitter 12 minutes from time.
“Halifax are really good on the counter-attack, they can hurt you,” Brennan said. “But I thi...

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