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AT LAST! IT’S WEMBLEY BUZZ FOR HORNETS

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
6 September 2020

By David Richardson
THEY had to wait six months for this moment but ten-man Hebburn Town will never forget their colossal tussle to reach Wembley.
The Hornets swept past Plymouth Parkway 190 days ago to reach this stage for the first time in their history only to be left wondering if they’d be able to finish their business.
Was it worth the wait? Hebburn manager Kevin Bolam will have needed a lie down and a Nurofen after this epic tie that swung one way and then the next, eventually decided when Corinthian’s Louie Clarke blazed his penalty out of the ground.
“I went throug...

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