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GRANT’S FINAL TWIST DRIVES KNIFE DEEP IN TO CITY HEART

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The LeaguePaper Team
3 December 2017

By Mark Williams

RUFFLE SOME FEATHERS: Jorge Grant celebrates the winner

Godfrey Poku with Ryan Yates

ELIEVED Notts County boss Kevin Nolan paid tribute to cup minnows Oxford City after they were cruelly denied a famous replay.
A desperate last-gasp strike from Jorge Grant, who is originally from Oxfordshire, broke the hearts of the Non-League side as the Magpies sneaked into the third round following an entertaining tie at Meadow Lane.
Mark Jones’s plucky outfit had twice bounced back to level but were left devastated by Grant’s last kick of the game in the fourth and ...

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