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HITCHIN TOWN 1 LEISTON 2

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
20 September 2026

By Roy Izzard

■HITCHIN suffered heartbreak in injury-time as Leiston scored a 92nd-minute winner.
Hitchin had gone behind in the first half with Adam Mills providing a crisp finish to a Ben Batho cross after 28 minutes.
Leiston were playing good football and were worth their half-time lead. But Hitchin fought back in the second half and were the dominant team.
They thoroughly deserved their equaliser after 71 minutes when Blue Joy headed home a Callum Nicolson corner.
The game was open with both teams looking for the winner. It came when a corner was headed against his own ...

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