FA Vase

BIG-GAME BEN IS AT IT AGAIN

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
12 February 2023

By Andy Mitchell

NEWPORT P 1
Shepherd 16

JERSEY B 0

WHAT A FEELING! Ben Shepherd celebrates his superb winner for the Swans and, inset, players get stuck in
PICTURE: Simon Roe

WEMBLEY winner Ben Shepherd’s volley just about crossed the tipping point to send holders Newport Pagnell through to the last eight of the FA Vase.
Midfielder Shepherd, who notched twice under the arch as the Swans beat Littlehampton Town to lift the Vase last season, saw his dipping half-volley cannon off the underside of the bar and bounce over the line 16 minutes into this tight clash.
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