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Next up we welcome runaway Northern Premier League leaders’ Macclesfield to the Kal Group Stadium on Saturday, with the Holy Blues looking to avenge a 2-0 defeat to the Silkmen earlier in the season. And at the same time, extend our three match unbeaten run, in all competitions. Robbie Savage’s big boys have won 21 of their 27 league games, losing three and drawing three. They have...
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Late yesterday evening, Trinity boss Russ Wilcox, raided one of his former clubs to bring in centre forward Sam Fishburn on loan, initially for a month. Fishburn will add options to the Holy Blues' front line, thanks to his strength and directness. A player tracked by Wilcox for a number of years, Fishburn’s arrival, ahead of a couple of home games, provides the Holy Blues with the...
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Gainsborough Trinity make the trip across to FC United of Manchester on Tuesday evening, continuing a busy run of Pitching In Northern Premier League football. A run of six games in the league between the Fourth and Fifth Rounds of the Isuzu FA Trophy, as Russ Wilcox's men continue their fine cup form, making it to the last sixteen, where they will take on Woking FC on the 1st of...
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Should Greenwich Avenue survive temperatures plummeting to minus 6 on Friday night, then the Holy Blues may just be able to head to Nottinghamshire, to take on Basford United in the Pitching In Northern Premier League. Maybe, if the surrounding walkways and pavements were less akin to a skating rink, there may be more hope of a game of association football at the home of the Ambers. But...
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Update: Match Off. Should the scheduled Tuesday night game between Blyth Spartans and Gainsborough Trinity go ahead, Russ Wilcox’s Holy Blues will finally total up game number twenty of the Pitching In Northern Premier League season. Still on nineteen league games for the campaign, every other side in the division have played more games, and Saturday's Cup exploits mean there is another...
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Gainsborough Trinity Football Club will find out their opponents in the Fifth Round of the Isuzu FA Trophy when they draw is made live on talkSPORT2 on Monday afternoon. Russ Wilcox’s men continued their excellent run in this season’s competition, thanks to Declan Howe's goal, giving the Holy Blues a superb 1-0 win over National League leader's York City at the Kal Group Stadium, on...
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The Holy Blues are one of three remaining Pitching In Northern Premier League clubs left in the last 32 of the Isuzu FA Trophy, alongside Basford United and Stockton Town. Can Russ Wilcox’s Gainsborough Trinity defy the odds and book a spot in the last sixteen? To do that, we’ll have to overcome one of the experienced boss’ former clubs, York City. 63 places separate the sides ahead...
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Welcome to 2025. Well, if you are reading this on the morning of the match, if you are reading this on New Years Eve, see you on the other side! It’s the first preview for a game in the New Year after what has been one remarkable year for the Holy Blues. A full calendar year under the guidance of boss Russ Wilcox has seen the Holy Blues return a 62.5%. Thirty wins in 48 competitive...
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Guiseley, in our eighteenth match of the 2024/25 Pitching In Northern Premier League season, brings 2024 to a close on Boxing Day. The final game of the year sees the side sitting second in the league come to the Kal Group Stadium in what has all the trimmings of a first-class festive clash. Can the Holy Blues bounce back straight away from disappointment in the North East, and get back...
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