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PROBE INTO KNIFE WIELDING PLAYER

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
2 April 2017

POLICE are investigating an allegation that a game was abandoned after a Sawbridgeworth Town player ran on to the pitch brandishing a knife, writes Robin Jones.
The club’s home Essex Senior League game against Clapton last Saturday was immediately brought to a halt by the referee in injury-time, sparking off an inquiry by the Hertfordshire FA. The player, who has not been named, was subsequently sacked by the club – and banned for life from their ground.
Witnesses said that the player had become involved in a heated argument with some Clapton fans, and there were claims that a s...

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