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BRAVE BARNES STOPS POLICE

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
7 December 2025

DIV 1 S.CENTRAL
MET POLICE 0 BOGNOR REGIS T 1
By Des Flanders

A GAME of pulsating endeavour from two young sides provided outstanding entertainment.
Bognor began brightly with Callum Laycock drawing a fine save from the keeper, but soon the game developed into an end-to-end battle with chances galore.
Overall, with the score 0-0at half time the Met felt they should have been ahead on chances available.
The match was dominated by the performance of Bognor’s 16-year-old stand-in keeper Alfie Barnes with outstanding brave saves to prevent Met scoring.
Barnes’ heroics c...

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