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Doughty’s spot-kick woe for Silkmen

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The LeaguePaper Team
5 August 2018

By Alex Crook

SWINDON manager Phil Brown hailed his players’ spirit after coming from behind to snatch a dramatic win over newly-promoted Macclesfield.
Summer signing Michael Doughty scored a hat-trick – including two stoppage time penalties – as the much-fancied Robins edged past last season’s National League champions. Relieved Brown said: “I don’t think there’s been many games like that, never mind the opening day.
“One of the old managers once said to me, ‘if you can’t be good, be lucky’, and today I thought I was goin...

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