Non-League Paper

SWEENEY SHINES ON DEBUT

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
13 August 2023

NPL DIV 1 MIDS
WALSALL W 1 SPALDING U 3
By Andy Mitchell

NEW boys Walsall Wood had keeper Kieran Boucher to thank for keeping the score down against last season’s beaten play-off finalists Spalding.
The Tulips led after 15 minutes when striker Dan Sweeney, a summer signing from Macclesfield, was nudged over in the box by Corey Currithers and got up to roll home the penalty.
Sweeney was thwarted by former Redditch team-mate Boucher at pointblank range moments later, but it was two shortly after half-time when Lewis Hilliard teed up Wilson Carvalho to drive low into the b...

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