National League

HAT-TRICK HERO GREG INSPIRES AN IDEAL START

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
11 August 2024

By Jeff Bowron

GATESHEAD 5
Whelan 12, Oseni 34, Olley 45+3, 49, 59

EBBSFLEET UTD 1
Poleon 90+5
GATESHEAD and Ebbsfleet shared 11 goals in their two meetings last season – both scoring four at home – and there were six more in this one-sided seasonal opener on Tyneside.
Long-serving Tynesider Greg Olley scored a 15-minute hat-trick – his first for the club – but the skipper’s heroics were overshadowed late on by a bad injury to Heed defender Joe Grayson.
Grayson suffered a suspected broken leg, was stretchered off and taken to hospital as what...

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