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ROVERS PULL WOOL OVER MICKY’S EYES

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
21 May 2017

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GREEN WITH ENVY: Ecstatic Forest Green players hold aloft the trophy

FOREST GREEN Rovers overturned the odds to complete the most famous day in their history after winning promotion to the Football League for the first time at Wembley last Sunday.
A Kaiyne Woolery double and a strike from top scorer Christian Doidge – all scored in a pulsating first half –were enough to see the Nailsworth outfit seal their place in League Two for next season after a record 19 years in the top flight of Non-League football.
Despite a large majority of the 18,801 crowd cheering on their oppo...

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