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HOLKER STREET NEWSLETTER 2280 – 13 NOVEMBER 2009 Compiled by Ralph

Barrow entertain AFC Wimbledon at Holker Street on Saturday in what should prove to be a good test of our credentials; we are eighteenth in the League and they
are tenth, but we are on a tremendous run. If you discount the defeat in the Celtic friendly, we are unbeaten since Saturday 26 September, when we lost 3-0
to Salisbury City on our travels, that’s a nine-match run, very impressive.
Hopefully we will make it to double figures.

I have a soft spot for AFC Wimbledon and how far they have come, and I have no time for the club MK Dons side which took their name, and moved lock, stock and barrel out of the region. Not one of the Football Association’s best decisions, that one!
There will be a bucket collection at half-time during the AFC Wimbledon game on Saturday for Reserve team goalkeeper, Tom Fairclough who suffered a double break
of his leg during the Lancashire League game against Curzon in October. Tom has had to defer his University studies for a year as his course is practical based
and has also had to give up his part-time job for the time being.

If you can’t make it to the game this Saturday, don’t forget BBC Radio Cumbria will be providing match commentary both and on the wireless and the web:

BBC Radio Cumbria: North, east and west 95.6FM, south 96.1FM, Whitehaven and Keswick 104.1FM, Kendal 95.2FM and Windermere 104.2 FM. AM; north 756 AM, south
837 AM and west 1458 AM: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/sport/barrow_afc/index.shtml