National League North

Chester 2-2 Scarborough Athletic: Bad Blues blunder sees Will level it!

A last-gasp equaliser from Scarborough Athletic’s Will Thornton earned the Yorkshiremen a share of the spoils in a match that ebbed and flowed from start to finish.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
19 March 2023

By Neil Turner

CHESTER 2

Willoughby 14, Caton 87
SCARBOROUGH A 2

Weledji 76, Thornton 90+3

IN THE NICK OF TIME: Scarborough’s players wheel away after Will Thornton nets his last-gasp equaliser
PICTURE: Rick Matthews

A last-gasp equaliser from Scarborough Athletic’s Will Thornton earned the Yorkshiremen a share of the spoils in a match that ebbed and flowed from start to finish.
Chester dominated proceedings in the first period, and should have gone in at the break leading by more than the 14th-minute strike from Kurt Willoughby. However midway through the second period Kieran Waledji...

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