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IRON UNDONE BY A LATE HARPER SUCKER-PUNCH

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
29 March 2026

By Liam Davis

BRAINTREE T 1 Walker 42

CARLISLE UTD 2 Linney 34, Harper 89

CARLISLE United continued their promotion push whilst condemning relegation-threatened Braintree to a consecutive home defeat, courtesy of Cameron Harper’s 89th-minute winner.
Harper fired home from a short corner to earn Mark Hughes’ men the points after Braintree’s Lewis Walker had earlier cancelled out Regan Linney’s 34th-minute opener for the visitors.
“That was real hard work out there,” Hughes admitted. “We had to battle for everything, they defended...

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