Northern Premier League

HOPE IS ALIVE AS RUGBY PREVAIL

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
9 March 2025

DIV 1 MIDLANDS
By Chris Nee

COVENTRY SPHINX 0
RUGBY TOWN 2
STRUGGLING Rugby Town gave their survival hopes a big boost with an away win against fellow relegation battlers Coventry Sphinx.
Rugby took advantage of a defensive mistake in the seventh minute and Daniele Reka was left with only goalkeeper Charlie Woods to beat with a calm slotted finish to put the Valley in front.
Reka was substituted after picking up an injury in a physical challenge with Woods and Sphinx defender Jamie Draper.
Little quality was shown until the middle of the second-half when Jahvan Davidson-Miller s...

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