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RIVALS GET ROUSE-ING RESPONSE

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
17 July 2022

RAMSBOTTOM U 1 BURY AFC 0
By Nigel Jepson

DESPITE the ‘friendly’ billing, these strong local rivals provided a highly competitive first half for a shirt-sleeve crowd at the Riverside Stadium nearing 700.
Tensions often ran high in the effort to gain the upper hand. Bury came closest after a prolonged spell of head tennis in the Rammy penalty area with a series of five or six goal-line clearances, somehow miraculously succeeding in keeping the ball out.
Finally through, the decisive winning goal came at the other end on 66 minutes when, latching on to a cross from...

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