Step 4

DIV 1 WEST

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
10 August 2025

By Will Alsop

SHIFNAL TOWN 0
CLITHEROE 1
JAKE CARROLL’S late free-kick decided this tight opener to poop promoted Shifnal’s party.
The ex-Hartlepool United and Cambridge United defender bent beautifully into Andy Wycherley’s top left corner two minutes from time after substitute Luke Gill had been fouled on the edge of the box.
Sam Fitzgerald, a scorer in Shifnal’s play-off final victory over 1874 Northwich, forced James McClenaghan into a close-range stop 18 minutes in with Danny Wilkins glancing wide a Jordan Windass centre at the other end moments late...

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