Former Premier League striker Nile Ranger makes a winning debut after joining Southern League side Kettering Town.
The former Newcastle academy graduate made his first appearance for Kettering during their 2-1 win against St Ives Town in the seventh tier on Monday.
"It was his first game, he hadn't met the lads. He's come in out of the cold, he's not played for a while,” Kettering manager Richard Lavery told BBC Radio Northampton."There's a lot more to come from him, he hasn't played at those levels for nothing, has he?"Kettering played in the top level of non-league football for many years.
In 1974, they were only six votes short of a place in the Football League, back when the bottom four clubs in the old Fourth Division - now League Two - had to apply for re-election. Previous managers of The Poppies include Derek Dougan, Ron Atkinson and former England star Paul Gascoigne, who was sacked after 39 days.Find out how the world's billionaires made their moneyWill cloud hang over Sinner's US Open victory?'They've hammered them!' Sri Lanka thrash England in final TestSabalenka 'living best life' after solving US Open struggles
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