FA Trophy

HARRISON GOAL EARNS UPSET JOY FOR BLUES

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
9 October 2022

ATHERTON COLLS 0 LEEK TOWN 3
By Emil Anderson

LEEK TOWN marched into the next of the FA Trophy after pulling off a giant-killing at Atherton Collieries.
Leek have made an impressive start in the Northern Premier West, but few would backed them to see off Premier Division opposition as convincingly as they did through goals from Oliver Harrison, William Reeves and Tim Grice.
After an even opening the visitors broke the deadlock midway through the first half.
Home keeper Nico De Freitas-Hansen did brilliantly to tip the initial effort on to the bar, but when the ball fell at the fee...

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