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Aldershot Town 3-1 Wealdstone: Tommy is stoked by new hot shot Josh

Starlet Josh Stokes inspired Aldershot Town to a thrilling victory which left the previously unbeaten Stones wondering what might have been.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
27 August 2023

By Steve Gibbs

ALDERSHOT T 3
Glover 32, Stokes 53, 74

WEALDSTONE 1
Adarkwa 77
TEEANGE starlet Josh Stokes inspired Aldershot Town to a thrilling victory which left the previously unbeaten Stones wondering what might have been.
The 19-year-old attacker scored twice in another impressively mature performance – but Wealdstone manager Stuart Maynard was correct in his assertion that “if we’d won the game 4-3 no-one could have come away saying that we didn’t deserve it”.
“I’m disappointed that we didn’t keep a clean sheet,” countered Shots boss Tommy Widdrington, even though former Aldersho...

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