Blyth’s new era starts with loss

WARRINGTON RY 2 BLYTH SPARTANS 1
By Garry Clarke

A 77TH-MINUTE penalty converted in style by Ben Hardcastle proved decisive in a game between two evenly matched sides trying to move away from the bottom of the table.
After an initial feeling out period in which both teams had chances, Hardcastle opened the scoring in the 35h minute firing the ball low into the net from the edge of the area after Blyth had failed to clear a corner.
The visitors – under new boss Michael Conno – look anything but a bottom of the table side and they hit back with Mitchell Curry clipping t...

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