Football: BLUE SQUARE NORTH.Byline: MALCOLM PRATT PRATT Point Refuted A Thousand Times (online debates) ALL eyes are on Blyth Spartans' FA Cup second round replay with Bournemouth at Croft Park Croft Park is a football stadium in Blyth, Northumberland. It is home to Blyth Spartans A.F.C., who play in the Blue Square Conference North. It was opened by Mrs Clarke of Bellister Castle, Haltwhistle on the 1 September 1909. on Tuesday night, but manager Harry Dunn Harry Dunn is an English former football player and current football club manager. He is the current manager of Conference North side Blyth Spartans. Dunn was born in County Durham and began with his hometown club Bishop Auckland before being quickly snapped up by insists that his players must first focus on this afternoon's crucial Blue Square North game at Solihull Moors. Dunn said: "Yes, it's difficult to put the Bournemouth game to the back of our minds but the league is our bread and butter and we are second from bottom. "We need to take at least a point from Solihull who are just three places and three points above us although we have three games in hand on them. "I'll be impressing on the squad just how important this afternoon's game is. Once we get it out of the way and hopefully return home with a good result, we'll sit down and plan for Tuesday." Dunn is forced into making changes since both Chris McCabe and Gary Brown This page is on the American footballer. For the Irish Rugby player see Gary Brown (rugby player). Gary Leroy Brown (born July 1, 1969 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania) is a former professional American football player who was selected by the Houston Oilers in the 8th round of are suspended. Providing today's game goes ahead, the pair will be eligible for Tuesday's showdown but Jason Bradley, who will start this afternoon, is ineligible having played for Buxton against Blyth in an earlier round. Blyth secretary Ian Evans has confirmed that Tuesday's replay is not a sell-out but that around 300 tickets returned by Bournemouth will go on sale in the social club on Monday between 6.30pm and 8.30pm. "We were required to send them 560 tickets (but haven't sold them), but I'm confident we will sell whatever they return and have a capacity crowd of 4,200," said Evans. |
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