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TIGERS LOVE CLARE SWOOP

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
5 July 2026

HYDE have signed striker - and reality TV star - Tom Clare after the 26-year-old left Macclesfield.
Clare, who won the first series of Love Island: All Stars in 2024, was on the books at Barnsley and Bradford as a youngster but made his name with a run of 17 goals in ten games for Pontefract Collieries in 2020-21.
He subsequently joined newly-formed Macclesfield and scored 27 goals in 47 appearances as the Silkmen won back-to-back promotions.
After a spell out of the game, he was re-signed for Macclesfield by current Hyde boss Michael Clegg in 2024 and has since scored eight goals in 27 ...

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