Northern Premier League

THEXTON ON TRACK FOR RAILWAYMEN

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
19 December 2021

DIV 1 EAST
PICKERING TOWN 0 SHILDON 4
By Tim Priest

A FIXTURE played in thick fog for the entire 90 minutes saw Shildon justify their top-three position in the league.
However, this was by far top-versus-bottom game, and Pickering matched the visitors man for man, ball for ball, throughout, especially in the first half.
It was only the clinical finishing by Shildons’s Dean Thexton that split the sides.
His first goal was a real gem, curled into the top corner after 38mins, followed by a penalty in added time. The referee had signalled one added minute, but controversially a...

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