Northern Premier League

Bucks denied at the death

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
26 January 2020

By Tony Tomlinson
BUXTON 2
FC UNITED 2
BRAVE, BATTLING Buxton, after playing with ten men for virtually half the match, came within a minute of securing victory against high-flying FC United.
Against a Rebels side who’d started the game looking for an eigth consecutive league win, the Bucks started well, having the better of the first half and taking a 26 minute lead as Diego De Girolamo seized on a bad back pass to beat keeper Cameron Belford with an angled low drive.
One of the game’s turning points came in the third minute of added time when the visiting Alex Curren suffered ...

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