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FORT END 73-GAME LOSING STREAK

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
4 August 2019

By Robin Jones
FORT WILLIAM – who have been hailed as the worst team in Britain – have been celebrating their first win in 73 games.
On Wednesday, the Highland League outfit beat Nairn County 5-2 in a North of Scotland Cup tie.
The win came four years after their last victory, when they beat Strathspey Thistle 4-1.
The perennial whipping boys had featured in a recent BBC Scotland documentary about their marathon winless run.
The shock win was congratulated by Ian Blackford, leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party in Westminster. The MP for Ross, Skye & Lochaber said: &ldquo...

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