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JEPSON’S EXIT GIVES HINCKLEY THE HUMP

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
2 December 2018

By Danny Thompson
COVENTRY UNITED 4
HINCKLEY AFC 0
COVENTRY United made history by reaching the last 32 of the FA Vase for the first time thanks to a consummate first-half performance.
The hosts showed no mercy towards lowerranked Hinckley whose manager James Jepson controversially quit on the eve of the East Midlands derby tie, claiming board members had attempted to engineer a change at the helm.
The floodgates opened 15 minutes in when Jamal Clarke pounced on a loose ball to fire into the bottom corner from a Luke Downes free-kick.
Within minutes the lead was doubled with Downes again th...

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