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Oldest club get play-off edge

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
7 April 2019

GRESLEY 0
SHEFFIELD 3
By Paul Barker
THREE goals in the second half boosted Sheffield’s playoff hopes as they saw off the bottom club Gresley. After a tight first half in which neither side were able to break the deadlock, Sheffield went about their business early in the second.
Johnny Pugh brilliantly curled in a free-kick from the edge of the area to give the world’s first football club the lead.
The second followed on 76 minutes when a brilliant counter-attack saw Edward Cribley cross for Marc Newsham to dink the ball brilliantly over the onrushing Ben Allsop. The third came ...

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