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IT JUST HAD TO BE DAN TO SETTLE DERBY DAY

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
5 April 2026

By Dave Clayton

TAMWORTH 1

SOLIHULL M 0

Creaney 56
YOU could have almost predicted that if anyone was going to score the winner in this Good Friday local derby it would be Tamworth striker Dan Creaney, who had moved to Damson Park in the summer only to return to the Lamb at Christmas, and his second half header condemned Chris Millington’s Solihull side to another defeat as their dismal run into midtable obscurity continued.
“It had 0-0 written all over it”, the Moors boss said, “but we were punished for making one mistake and we don’t seem t...

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