Northern Premier League

Margetts is the man as Gladiators shock Boro

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
5 November 2023

MATLOCK TOWN 4 RADCLIFFE 0
By Ian Richardson

JONNY Margetts, the Northern Premier League Premier Division top scorer Jonny Margetts, hit a sensational quadruple of goals as Matlock deservedly toppled runaway league leaders Radcliffe.
John Johnston and Alex Duhameau had both gone close before Matlock took a 12th-minute lead, and it came from an horrific error in the Boro defence.
Rick Smith crazily lobbed the ball over his own goalkeeper, Mateusz Hewelt, and Margetts could not believe his luck, gleefully firing home.
It could have been two eight minutes later as Margetts broke clear...

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