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Aldershot Town 3-4 Chesterfield: Spireites go second but forced to dig deep

Chesterfield rose back up to second in the National League table with a victory which was more comfortable than the topsy-turvy scoreline suggests.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
3 September 2023

By Steve Gibbs

ALDERSHOT T 3
Stokes 25, Barham 60, 84

CHESTERFIELD 4
Colclough 33, Grigg 48, Naylor 54, Quigley 86
CHESTERFIELD rose back up to second in the National League table with a victory which was more comfortable than the topsy-turvy scoreline suggests.
The EBB Stadium once again provided all the fun of the fair on a tumultuous afternoon, but Aldershot were the authors of their own downfall with naïve defending that contributed to the thrills and spills.
“You don’t want to paper over the disappointing aspects of it, but it was that emotional at the end that you can’t help but en...

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