National League

Spitfires motor in Shots thriller

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
17 December 2023

By Steve Gibbs

ALDERSHOT TOWN 3

Barham 64, Stokes 74, 90+5
EASTLEIGH 5

McCallum 20, 51, Clements 35, Rowe (og) 45, Quigley 59

IT’S A MAC ATTACK: Paul McCallum is mobbed after scoring Eastleigh’s first goal
PICTURE: Ian Morsman

Apre-Christmas cracker of a game had everything as Aldershot Town were both resoundingly thrashed by a rampant Eastleigh side and unlucky to not snatch a point in a chaotic finale.
The Spitfires – knocked out of the FA Trophy last week by their Hampshire neighbours – roared into a convincing 5-0 lead, in part by capitalis...

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