FA Trophy

Heybridge Swifts 1-1 Hungerford Town: Swifts denied at the death after shoot-out heartache

Heybridge Swifts came within a whisker of pulling off another FA Trophy shock as National League South Hungerford Town edged through following a tense penalty shoot-out at Scraley Road.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
18 December 2022

By Liam Spreadbury

HEYBRIDGE SWIFTS 1

Wall 32
HUNGERFORD TOWN 1

Evans 63
Hungerford won 5-3 on Penalties

STRONG ARMED: Heybridge Swifts, in black and white, fight for space in the Hungerford box
PICTURE: Alan Edmonds

HEYBRIDGE Swifts came within a whisker of pulling off another FA Trophy shock as National League South Hungerford Town edged through following a tense penalty shoot-out at Scraley Road.
Swifts, who knocked out Step 2 Hereford in the last round, could sense another shock was on the cards when Ross Wall put them in front.
Jack Evans restored parity with a fine free-kick in...

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