FA Vase

Littlehampton Town 1-0 North Shields: Marigolds clean up favourites

A 78th own-goal saw Littlehampton defeat competition favourites North Shields to reach the semi-final of the FA Vase for the first time since 1991.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
13 March 2022

By Tom Cunningham

LITTLEHAMPTON 1
Walker 78 (og)

NORTH SHIELDS 0

IN THE BIG TIME: Littlehampton revel in their win to reach the FA Vase semi-finals
PICTURE: Jerry Lyons

A 78TH-MINUTE own goal saw Littlehampton defeat competition favourites North Shields to reach the semi-final of the FA Vase for the first time since 1991.
Joint-manager and player George Gaskin said: “I’ve been here on and off for 15 years; I watched the club as a kid, and now I’m joint manager with Mitch (Mitchell Hand), and a couple of the committee members got to the final in 1990 and the first round of the FA Cup, an...

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