Northern Premier League

RUGBY TOWN 3 LICHFIELD CITY 2

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
25 January 2026

DIV 1 MIDLAND S
By John Venner

■ RUGBY recorded a morale-boosting win against the out-of-form Lichfield, with Kobi Bivens’s 56th-minute strike proving to be the game’s decisive moment.
The visitors scored their first goal in five matches when Joe Haines headed in a Jack Edwards curled free-kick after 12 minutes, but the hosts soon levelled when Rivel Mardenborough tapped in from close range after City messed up clearing away Jack Concannon’s goal-bound effort. Caine Elliott’s penalty gave Rugby a half-time lead, but Harvey Smith equalised with a sho...

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