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LATE LEVELLER FROM HOPLEY

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
31 December 2017

WITTON ALBION 2 BARWELL 2
By Andy Simpson
ROB Hopley scored in stoppage time to earn ten-man Witton Albion a share of the spoils with Barwell.
The front man swept in James Foley’s driven cross for the hosts, who had trailed twice.
They had been playing catch-up from the moment Matt Stenson bent a free-kick into the bottom-corner midway through the first-half.
It had been awarded after a handball by defender Joel Bembo-Leta, who was sent offafter he was cautioned a second time by referee Connor Brown. His first yellow was for the same offence.
Albion drew level on the hour when Steven ...

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