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Richens pounces late on for dominant Ives

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
7 December 2025

ST IVES TOWN 2 WORCESTER CITY 1
By Nigel Howlett

AN EXCELLENT comeback win put Ives back on track after a run of four defeats in a row and it was no less than they deserved.
The hosts ran the show in the second half with their pacey strikers scything apart the tiring City defence which had looked so dominant in the first period.
City’s leading scorer Dan Sweeney grabbed a poacher’s goal in the tenth minute by prodding home from close range in a scramble after Ives failed to deal with a free-kick arced into their box from the left.
But the hosts fought their way back i...

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