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HOME IS NOT SO SWEET FOR DARLO

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
30 August 2026

By Craig Stoddart

DARLINGTON 1
MACCLESFIELD 2
DARLINGTON’S dire season continued with a third successive home defeat leaving them third-bottom.
Including last season, Quakers have now lost seven in a row on home soil, and this one came despite holding a 1-0 half-time lead.
After a bright start by Macclesfield, Darlo went ahead against the run of play.
Toby Lees’ pass lured keeper Christian Dibble outside his area, but he enabled Dylan Stephenson to pounce. But the Silkmen will not have been deterred by being behind – this became the third occasion this season...

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