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Gateshead 3-1 Kettering Town: Heed feel the need for speed in winning start

A SCINTILLATING first half display saw Gateshead sweep aside Kettering to get their season off to a winning start.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
22 August 2021

By Jeff Bowron

GATESHEAD 3
KETTERING T 1
A SCINTILLATING first half display saw Gateshead sweep aside Kettering to get their season off to a winning start.
Meetings between these two sides on Tyneside have been close tough affairs over the last three decades.
Nine of the 13 league clashes at the International Stadium had been draws, goalless on four occasions, 1-1 the other five.
This was a footballing feast by comparison and it could easily have been a record scoreline.
A swaggering Heed scored three goals in eight first half minutes, Cedwyn Scott drilling home the opener in emphatic style...

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