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Holt saved by Travis, 16

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
1 December 2019

WROXHAM 1
WELLINGBORO’ T 0
By Jon Batham
TRAVIS DODSWORTH wrote his own Roy of the Rovers story as Wroxham finally broke Wellingborough Town hearts to reach the last 32.
Just 16 and with only a handful of first-team appearances behind him, Dodsworth struck the only goal of the game in the first period of extra time to settle a tense affair of few chances at Trafford Park and keep the Yachtsmen’s dreams of Wembley alive.
The teenager’s intervention saved the blushes of former Norwich City striker Grant Holt whose second-half penalty miss for the Eastern Counties Premier hig...

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