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  ECKERT RUES SAINTS’ FAILURE TO HOLD OUT

  SETBACK: Eckert SOUTHAMPTON manager Tonda Eckert cut a frustrated figure after seeing his side throw away two points late in the match at Lincoln. He said: “Credit to Lincoln for a performance of courage, manliness and energy. The job was to make sure we brought the ball down quickly and...

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  We should have won, insists boss Wilshere

  By Mike Simmonds THERE was a sense of regret from Luton boss Jack Wilshere that his Hatters team failed to get the three points against Leyton Orient. Town had 23 shots, with seven on target, but only scored once, Jamie Donley on target against his former club. O’s hit back...

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  CATON DOUBLES UP TO SHOOT DOWN ‘UNACCEPTABLE’ REDS

  By Stephen Serpent JOHN Doolan heaped praise on striker Charlie Caton after he netted twice to double his tally for the season. Stanley opened the scoring after four minutes when Caton got the ball on the edge of the six-yard box and smashed it into the roof of the net....

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  Slow start has put PNE in great peril

  A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL Chris Dunlavy PRESTON North End have spent the last few years operating like an inverted version of Usain Bolt. The Jamaican sprint legend was a famously dreadful starter, his two-metre frame creaking out of the blocks with all the urgency of a mummy rising from...