National League North

PILGRIMS’ WILLIS PUTS UP A WALL FOR POINT

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
2 December 2018

By Mike Neild
CHORLEY 1
BOSTON UNITED 1
A CRACKING contest fittingly ended allsquare after a riveting second half kept the 1,047 crowd on tenterhooks.
Boston bossed the opening half-hour but Chorley gradually improved and after the break got well on top, only a trio of outstanding saves by Pilgrims’ skipper George Willis denying them a win.
Despite the intense home pressure, Boston were by no means out of the picture and Andy Thanoj shook the bar with a thunderous late strike from 35 yards.
Willis had pulled off a great save from an Adam Blakeman freekick in the opening quarter and th...

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