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MALTBY MAIN 0
LIVERSEDGE 4
(Joe Walton ‘4, Rhys Davies ’63, Steve Wales ’78,
Vaughan Redford ’83)
ATTENDANCE: 95
WEDNESDAY 31st AUGUST 2016
by
RYAN147.COM
Liversedge moved to the top of
the Northern Counties East
League Premier Division table
on Wednesday evening with a
comfortable 4-0 victory at Malty
Main on my first ever visit to
Muglet Lane.
The third in a series of non-
league football travels with our
friend and groundhopping guru
Bill saw my Dad and I heading
to Muglet Lane, the home of
NCEL Premier
Division club
Maltby Main.
Based in
Rotherham, the
club are
celebrating their
100th anniversary
this year and in
recent times have
spent all but
four seasons
since 1990 at step
nine of the football
pyramid
– finishing 7th last time around.
The early weeks of the new
campaign had been
disappointing for Maltby, having
fallen at the very first hurdle in
the FA Cup for the first time in
three years courtesy of a 1-0
home defeat to Squires Gate,
and then losing their opening
two league games to Athersley
Recreation and Garforth Town.
However, things quickly picked
up and they headed into this
evening’s contest in
good form, picking
up seven points from
their last three
games, which
included victories
over Armthorpe
Welfare and AFC
Mansfield.
The visit of
Cleckheaton-based
outfit Liversedge
looked to be a
tougher challenge for
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