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MATCH ABANDONED…

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
1 June 2017

CHRIS LINCOLN looks at some of the more unusual reasons why games have finished early

CHRIS LINCOLN

Off balance: A pitch invader tackles Senegal’s Lamine Gassama and, inset, fans at the ‘friendly’

MONDAY, March 27, 2017 was somewhat of a dark day for football. Rarely these days do you see matches called off mid-flow but this date will go down in history for two abandonments on the same evening with contrasting circumstances.
Up in Humberside, Hull City’s development squad took on Millwall in a Professional Development League contest.
With the Tigers edging towa...

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