Non-League Paper

DRAMA AS HAYES SEALS IT

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
30 April 2023

VCD ATHLETIC 0 PHOENIX SPORTS 1
By Dean Sawyer

RYAN HAYES’ last-minute penalty saw Phoenix Sports secure promotion to Step 4 against local rivals VCD Athletic.
The nerves were clear to see in the early exchanges as neither created anything of note in an unsurprisingly cagey affair, though the second-half was much different.
Ryan Sawyer watched his header come off the crossbar, before Tashi-Jay Kwayie missed a glorious opportunity to put his side in-front.
Kwayie then thought he had given the visitors a slender advantage but was ruled offside, much to their natural frustrati...

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