Northern Premier League

OLD FRIENDS SHARE THE SPOILS AFTER FINDING LEEK

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
18 August 2024

WORKINGTON 1 LEEK TOWN 1
By John Walsh

THIS was a familiar scoreline to these two sides, reunited in the Premier Division after recent promotions from NPL West.
Overall it was probably a fair result from an open game which saw both sides enjoy spells of good possession but who found little to test the respective goalkeepers.
Leek’s Dino Visser produced the save of the match in time added on at the end when he pawed away a snap-shot from Steven Rigg.
The visitors’ Brendon Daniels headed against the Workington crossbar when he should have scored and minutes later a fier...

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