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PORT SLIP IN BATTLE BY THE SEA

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
16 July 2017

By Alan Jones

SOUTHPORT 1
Anderson 81
BLACKPOOL 3
Vassell 45, Gnanduillet 52, Osayi-Samuel 76 (pen)
AS host town of golf’s Open Championship, Southport will spend the coming week in the sporting spotlight, but Alan Lewer says he will be content if his team begin the new football season under the radar.
While a raft of teams have spent big this summer to strengthen in a highly-competitive National League North, Lewer has had to oversee a complete rebuild as Southport get to grips with life after relegation.
In Liam Hynes, the Sandgrounders have retained only one player from the squa...

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