Non-League Paper

SPARTANS HAVE TO KEEP ON GROWING

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
3 December 2023

By Mark Carruthers

DEMAND: Blyth assistant Jon Shaw

ASSISTANT manager Jon Shaw has called on Blyth Spartans to ‘grow up’ and avoid being sucked into the National League North relegation battle over the festive period.
Graham Fenton’s men enjoyed a promising start to the campaign as they looked to move on from three difficult seasons in Non-League’s second tier and were sat in and around the play-off places following a 4-0 home win against Farsley Celtic in early September.
But Spartans won just one of their last 12 games since that Croft Park victory a...

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