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POPPIES BOOM IN THRILLER

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
10 August 2025

By Duncan Easley

ROYSTON TOWN 3
KETTERING TOWN 4
A HIGHLY entertaining season opener at Garden Walk saw Kettering score a 104th-minute winner after a screamer from substitute Edmond Oppong gave the Poppies all three points.
The first half saw six goals, as a mixture of good attacking play and poor defending contributed to the 3-3 half-time score.
It was the Crows who opened the scoring as debutant Josh Boorn took just four minutes to get on the scoresheet, after a Luke Warner-Eley free-kick had not been cleared.
Royston were the architects of their own downfall, as a quick-fire do...

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