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Article: Vale claim vital victory.
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- The Visitor (Morecambe) (Morecambe, England)
- Article date:
- January 23, 2008
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This bargain basement scrap held the attention throughout, not because it was a game packed with scintillating free-flowing Barbarian-style rugby but because of the intensity of the occasion and the gravity of the situation.
Here were two clubs who were staring at the prospect of relegation, victory was paramount and even then the path to safety is full of pitfalls as fixtures begin to run out. Bottom of North Two West, Tyldesley, were looking for their first win of the campaign and were facing the Vale of Lune on the back of a 90-point hammering at Chester in their last league outing.
If confidence was at a low ebb at St George's Park it hardly showed ...