Northern Premier League

WIDNES 3 RUNCORN LINNETS 5

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
19 December 2021

DIV 1 WEST
By Callum Chadwick

■ IWAN Murray scored a hat-trick as Runcorn won the latest Halton Derby.
Skipper Mike Burke lashed Widnes into a 25th-minute lead but Oladapo Olarewaju levelled four minutes later.
Linnets took the lead through a fabulous Murray free-kick, but Widnes rallied after the interval with Ryan Jennings equalising.
Runcorn regained their lead 10 minutes later when Sean O’Mahoney capitalised on a Burke error before the Widnes skipper was sent off.
Murray added a fourth with another set-piece, but Widnes substitute Kyle Sambor set up a tense finish. Ru...

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