MATCH REPORTFootball
Old Ground — Down to ten after eleven minutes, level with ninety on the clock, and then Okonkwo — who had missed everything all night — hit the one that mattered. The title race has a pulse again.
Written off in August, benched in October, match-winner in the spring. Inside the turnaround nobody at the club saw coming.
The board statement praised his “professionalism”. The league table said eleventh, and the away end said worse.
Two loans, one buy-back, and a goalkeeper saga that has now outlived the manager who started it.
1 · Harbour City
64 ptsup +3
W2 D1
2 · Eastport Albion
63 ptsunchanged +1
W1 D2
3 · Millbrook
58 ptsup +3
W3 L1
4 · Summit City
54 ptsdown 0
D1 L2
5 · Dockyard FC
51 ptsunchanged +1
W1 L1
11 · Northgate Rovers
33 ptsdown 0
L3
Ostbury close 193 behind with seven wickets standing and two days of cloud forecast. The follow-on maths starts now.
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