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Dagenham & Redbridge 2-0 Spennymoor Town: Saunders injury hell mars win for Daggers

A HORRIFIC leg break to George Saunders dampened Dagenham & Redbridge spirits as they overcame Spennymoor Town to book their place in the last eight of the FA Trophy.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
13 February 2022

By Danny Rust

DAGENHAM &R 2
McCallum 47, Morias 77

SPENNYMOOR T 0
A HORRIFIC leg break to George Saunders dampened Dagenham & Redbridge spirits as they overcame Spennymoor Town to book their place in the last eight of the FA Trophy.
Saunders was forced off on a stretcher and taken to hospital following a 50/50 challenge with Moors captain James Curtis.
Curtis saw red as a result, but even though Dagenham won through thanks to second-half goals from Paul McCallum and Junior Morias, boss Daryl McMahon was downbeat.
“George is in a really bad way and has gone to hospital,” he said. “...

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