This was a classic “must win” encounter for both sides: for the Broch, after capitulating twice in succession, there was an urgent need to halt a rare sequence of defeats. They are a proud club unused to experiencing three reverses in a row . Formartine, on the back of a dozen undefeated League ou ...

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If Formartine can play as well as this without a manager, the cynics will ask if they really need one at all. The answer to that is for a different time and place entirely, but the plain fact of the matter is that this side, with some guidance from Coach Jerry O Driscoll who also picked the team, pr ...

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There are big defeats and bad defeats: this was both. The margin of the visitors' victory if viewed in the context of being achieved by a club of comparable status (Lowland League v Highland League) is wide enough to embarrass. 4-0 is, by any measure, a “doing”. However the scale of the defeat is in ...

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