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Tavistock 1-3 US Portsmouth: Franklyn’s fancy work keeps Navy men afloat

Franklyn showed his class within three minutes when he rounded home keeper Tom Watson, only for Josh Robins to race back and clear off the line. It was the sign of things to come.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
25 April 2021

By Nicholas Harling

TAVISTOCK AFC 1
Prynn 19

UNITED SER. PORTSMOUTH 3
Chandler 11, Ford 17, Seider 56 (pen)

WE’VE DONE IT! Step 6 US Portsmouth are in the last eight of the Vase
PIC: Gerry Hunt

JAMES Franklyn failed to score for once but it was the outstanding display by the United Services top marksman that undermined Tavistock to the point of distraction before, much to their undoubted relief, he gave way to cramp in a pulsating all action tussle.
The reward for the last of the Wessex League survivors is a home quarter-final against Flackwell Heath.
“James does this week in, week out...

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