FA Trophy

Mansell sets the pace in Hill’s race to finish

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
5 October 2025

By Jack Naldrett

BURGESS HILL TOWN 1
POTTERS BAR TOWN 1
BURGESS HILL WON 4-3 ON PENS
ALFIE MANSELL was Burgess Hill’s hero with a penalty shoot-out save as his side progressed 4-3 on spot-kicks.
The hosts had opened the scoring in the 21st minute when a cross from the right was knocked down by Martyn Box and Ben Pope let it bounce and then caught it sweetly with his right foot to smash into the top corner.
You are at your most vulnerable when you’ve just scored, or so they say, and so it proved for Hill. Less than 60 seconds after the restart, a cross was swung in f...

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