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Promotion derby goes way of Stags

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
10 August 2025

DOVER ATHLETIC 2 AFC TOTTON 3
By Stuart Francis

AFC TOTTON edged a thriller against Dover in the battle of the promoted teams.
Goals by Christos Batzelis, Brandon Haunstrup and Ralph Vigrass left last campaign’s Isthmian Premier play-off victors chasing the game after a dismal opening 45 minutes.
Whites did get two back through striker George Nikaj, the second coming in injury time to set up a grandstand finish, but it finished 3-2 to Jimmy Ball’s men.
The visitors, who had gone up themselves through the Southern League Premier Division South play-offs, took the lead ...

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