Northern Premier League

PARROTT FLIES IN TO BEAT SPHINX

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
4 January 2026

DIV 1 MIDLANDS
BEDWORTH UNITED 2 COVENTRY SPHINX 1
By Craig Reeves

ELLIOT Parrott netted a late winner as Bedworth came from behind to beat Coventry Sphinx.
Louis Monaghan spurned a decent chance for Bedworth, before Sphinx took the lead after 25 minutes.
Individual brilliance from Kyle Carey led him to wriggle away from a defender and curl in a brilliant strike from about 25 yards into the top corner.
Sphinx keeper Charlie Woods then superbly saved from Monaghan, before the hosts levelled after 65 minutes, Samson Hewett’s cross powerfully headed home by sub Ryan Boothe.
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