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Gainsborough Trinity 5-1 Blyth Spartans: Spartans are blown away by the Holy Blues

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
16 February 2025

GAINSBORO’ TR 5 BLYTH SP’TANS 1
By Rob Hughes

Five-star Gainsborough Trinity put basement boys Blyth Spartans to the sword, with four goals coming in 22 first-half minutes to take the game away from the struggling visitors in the Northern Premier Division.
Eight minutes in, Fraser Preston curled home a sublime left-footed free-kick after Javelle Clarke had been upended.
Preston doubled his, and Trinity’s, tally when he expertly found the back of the net, via Alex Walpole’s left-hand upright.
The spin on the ball took it over the line.
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Declan Howe then headed home Lewis Butroid...

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