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NINE-MAN BULLS HOLD ON TO SALVAGE A SHARE OF SPOILS

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
31 March 2019

By Tom Dean
EAST ROUND-UP
IT ended 1-1 at the Elgoods Fenland Stadium as Wisbech Town failed to take advantage of an AFC Mansfield side which played almost the entire second half with nine men.
Cameron Dear’s deflected free-kick wrong-footed Mansfield keeper James Connell before they lost captain Pat Lindley to a straight red following an off-the-ball incident five minutes before half time.
Four minutes after the break, a moment of madness from Bulls striker Oliver Fearon saw him sent off for kicking the ball over the stand.
Mansfield continued to defend their slender lead but Wisbech...

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