Northern Premier League

EMLEY AFC 0 HEATON STAN’TON 2

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
15 March 2026

DIV 1 EAST
By John Streak

EMLEY were defeated at home by play-off-chasing Heaton Stannington.
The hosts should have been ahead after 11 minutes when a free-kick was missed at the far post by Joe Stacey.
ond with ten minutes to go
After a goalless first half, when he pinched the ball off the visitors took the lead after 62 minutes when Dale
Walpole on the edge of the
Pearson pinched the ball area and he lobbed the ball off Alexander Walpole, who into the empty goal. was caught in no-man’s land. The Stan are now nine off Pearson charged through on the play-off places, while Emley...

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