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Spetch special saves the day

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
19 January 2025

DORCHESTER T 1 BRACKNELL T 0
By Terry Spracklen

A SWEET 67th-minute strike from Dorchester’s Olaf Koszela clinched maximum points for the Magpies, who were forced to play substitute defender Will Spetch in goal for over half the match following a hand injury to keeper Gerard Benfield.
Spetch made three notable contributions, firstly upending Gabriel George to concede a 45th minute penalty which Hayden Vaughan blasted over.
Spetch then showed safe hands to claim a 73rd-minute corner from Bracknell substitute James Dobson and in stoppage time pulled off an incredible one-handed...

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