Northern Premier League

REDS MAKE LIGHT WORK OF DOLEFUL SEASIDERS

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
22 September 2024

WORKINGTON 3 WHITBY TN 1
By John Walsh

WORKINGTON ended a run of three successive defeats with their most convincing performance of the season.
Whitby arrived at Borough Park almost twoand-a-half hours before the game and all that waiting around seemed to get to them - they were lethargic from the outset and the home side dominated for long periods.
Workington went in front after seven minutes when Steven Rigg lifted the ball over the top for David Norris, the 43-year-old who has been coaxed out of retirement, who finished calmly past Shane Bland.
Whitby had one chance in the first...

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