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DIDCOT TOWN 3 SHAFTESBURY 0

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
8 February 2026

DIV 1 SOUTH
By Stewart Unsworth

■ DIDCOT recorded their biggest league win of the season to date in a somewhat surprising demolition of sixth-placed Shaftesbury.
It is a result which highlights the Rockies recent shaky defensive record, which has seen fifteen goals shipped in their last six matches.
The Railwaymen started brightly, winning a penalty after a Shaftesbury defender handled in the area. Cam Mills hammered the spot-kick past keeper Ben Taylor and soon doubled his tally by beating the Rockies stopper at his near post.
The division’s leading scorer Toby Holmes miss...

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