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  Steve Hill: Hilly’s Away Days – Caught in the twilight zone

  96, 93, 95, 94, 97, 94, 97. Not next week’s lottery numbers but a selection of this season’s goal times involving my team, Chester.

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  Matt Badcock: The numbers don’t add up

  Promotion can be career altering for clubs and players. Currently the numbers don’t add up. They didn’t nine years ago either. It’s time they did.

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  Mark Harris: We must all find solution to abuse

  “You f*****g s**g” – is it really acceptable to shout that at another human being at a football match? It’s an important question because that’s what a female referee was called last Saturday during a Step 4 match.

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  Mark Carruthers: Can Marc Nash restore Blyth Spartans’ lost aura?

  There is something about Blyth Spartans’ famous old Croft Park home that can satisfy the needs of any football romantic.