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WRITTEN IN STONE

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
17 August 2025

NPL MIDLANDS
RUGBY BOROUGH 4 LOUGHBORO’ STUD 2
By Jon Venner

A SUPERB hat-trick from Leo Stone fired Rugby Borough to the top of the table. A defensive lapse from Borough gifted the visitors an early lead, but parity was quickly restored when a Loughborough defender turned the ball into his own net.
From there, Stone took centre stage. Just before the interval, he showed his class with a deft flick and a stunning volley to put Borough 2–1 up at the break.
Then, after narrowly missing with an audacious lob, he made no mistake, breaking free and calmly slotting past the...

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