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Gateshead 2-1 Yeovil Town: Resurgent Heed keep powering onwards

Gateshead’s resurrection from relegation certainties to potential survival heroes gathered pace after they completed only their second double of the season.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
29 March 2026

By Jeff Bowron

GATESHEAD 2 Ward 65 (pen), Beck 73

YEOVIL TOWN 1 Ferguson 90+6

Gateshead’s resurrection from relegation certainties to potential survival heroes gathered pace after they completed only their second double of the season.

The Tynesiders spent over three months in the drop zone before a 16-game losing run was spectacularly turned around with a run of just two defeats in 12 outings.
Seven of those have been victories, the latest against Yeovil, who capped a bad day when Finn Cousin-Dawson was sent off in injury-time.
Gateshead were already two-up through Keaton Ward’s 64t...

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