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COVENTRY SPHINX 1 LONG EATON UTD 5

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
15 September 2024

DIV 1 MIDLANDS
By Chris Nee

■ FIVE-goal striker Evan Garnett delivered a timely away win for Long Eaton at Coventry Sphinx.
The first of five came after a quarter of an hour before Sphinx sub Jordan Hayward equalised with his first touch of the game, dragging the ball past Lewis King.
Sphinx lost centre-forward Lockley to a straight red late in the first half, which ended with Garnett’s second from a move that should have been called dead for a dive.
Two goals in five minutes killed off the contest in the middle of the half. Garnett completed his hat-trick with a volley an...

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