National League North

SAM’S THE MAN AS BULLS GRAB DRAW

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
7 September 2025

By Craig Stoddart

DARLINGTON 1
HEREFORD 1
SAM OSBORNE was Hereford’s hero, emerging from the bench to deny Darlington victory at Blackwell Meadows.
Two years since scoring a hat-trick for Buxton against Quakers, Osborne scored a late leveller on a day Darlington rued not taking more than a solitary chance.
They have not won in four home matches, despite taking the lead in three of them.
Jack Maskell put them ahead here. After missing a handful of opportunities, Quakers got the goal ten minutes before half-time when Maskell scrambled in a corner.
And it was soon almost 2-0,...

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