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BRIGGS IS THE HERO AS SHIELDS CLAIM CUP

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
28 July 2024

SOUTH SHIELDS 4 GRIMSBY TOWN 3
By Morgan Jameson

ROBERT Briggs was the toast of South Tyneside as his ten-year commemoration Mariners Cup went the way of National League North outfit South Shields in a seven-goal thriller against Grimsby Town.
Shields broke the deadlock after a Sam Hodgson-Mackenzie Heaney one-two on the left resulted in Heaney’s cross finding Bryan Taylor’s head at the back post.
Grimsby striker Charles Vernam then levelled, capitalising inside the six-yard box following a Tyrell Warren cross from the right.
The League Two visitors, however, once aga...

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