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Steve Hill: Hilly’s Away Days – Caught in the twilight zone

96, 93, 95, 94, 97, 94, 97. Not next week’s lottery numbers but a selection of this season’s goal times involving my team, Chester.
Chester’s Iwan Murray takes on Cambridge United’s Michael Morrison in their FA Cup tie

96, 93, 95, 94, 97, 94, 97. Not next week’s lottery numbers but a selection of this season’s goal times involving my team, Chester.

Football may be a game of two halves, but it is increasingly a game of two halves with a seemingly arbitrary portion of time stuck on at the end.
As I know only too well, this tortuous Twilight Zone seems to throw up a disproportionate number of goals, for better or worse.
It’s the latter that kills you and I am currently stabbing at the keyboard while still seething at an equaliser scored by Southport in the 94th minute to deny ten-man Chester an heroic away v...

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