Non-League Paper

ISLAND EASE TO SECOND VICTORY OF THE SEASON

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
2 November 2025

By Jack Naldrett

BURGESS HILL T 0
CANVEY ISLAND 2
BURGESS Hill slumped to a dismal 2-0 home defeat by a resurgent Canvey Island, who deservedly took all three points back to Essex to give Garry Kimble a win in his first match in charge of the Gulls.
Hillians No.1 Roco Rees was forced into a brilliant point-blank save to deny Canvey early on.
The home side created very little until the last kick of the first half when Canvey failed to clear a cross into the box and it came to George Vorster, nine yards out, to tap home but his effort was brilliantly blocked on the line by Joe Halse...

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