National League North

Hosts have their wings clipped

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
23 December 2018

By Mike Neild
CHORLEY 2
BLYTH SPARTANS 4
CHORLEY’S return to the top of the National North was promptly cut short by a lively Blyth Spartans.
The visitors benefited from two penalty awards by referee Matt Corlett, who took centre stage with a flurry of nine evenly-distributed pre-Christmas cards.
And the game was ultimately decided by an enterprising double substitution by Blyth boss Alun Armstrong midway through the second half.
It was completely against the run of play when Dan Maguire latched onto a long punt from Peter Jameson and was deemed to have been fouled by Dan Eccles, Sean...

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