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HOWE’S STRAT! RENE WOWS AS POPPIES CLOSE IN ON LEADERS

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
10 December 2017

By Peter Short

NET BUSTER: Stratford keeper Louis Connor falls back in to his net after the referee allows Kettering’s first goal to stand
PICTURES: Mike Capps

KETTERING came through an ill-tempered clash with Stratford thanks in part to a man-of-the-match performance from Rene Howe.
Referee Richard Eley was a busy man blowing up for no fewer than 35 fouls, allowing Kettering’s controversial opener from Mathew Stevens to stand and disallowing another from Howe on the stroke of half-time.
It was a win which sees the Poppies close the gap on leaders King’s Lynn Town to fo...

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