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Dixon clanger settles snorefest

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
30 December 2018

By Andrew McNeil
FARNBOROUGH 1
STAINES TOWN 0
WE GO on a Saturday to a theatre of dreams to watch 22 players on the park do things we all wish we could with an inflated pig skin.
We go to revel in the skills on display, the technical vision, the nous and acumen of the players.
Unfortunately, at the Easy As HGV Stadium we were treated to a 90-minute equivalent of two bald men fighting over a comb.
On four minutes, Staines keeper Louis Dixon spilled an innocuous shot from Seth Owens, pushing the ball into the goal at the near post for Farnborough to take an early lead.
They would hold on to t...

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