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That's it, it's all over, the referee has blown the final whistle.
Goal!! Notts County have scored with Richard Butcher putting it in the back of the net.
Jamie Forrester is being taken off, Spencer Weir-Daley has come on in his place.
Kirk Hudson is replaced by Lewis Chalmers.
Gavin Strachan is replaced by Jay Smith.
John Grant is being taken off, Rob Elvins has come on in his place.
Delroy Facey is replaced by Sean Canham.
Aldershot are replacing Marvin Morgan with Danny Hylton.
Goal!! Michael Johnson scores for Notts County.
Goal!! Anthony Charles scores for Aldershot.
The second half is under way with the score currently at 0 v 0.
The ref has blown his whistle for half time.
Marvin Morgan is booked for unsporting behaviour.
It's 3pm on Saturday, September 27th, the match has kicked off.
Notts County left it late before winning for the first time this season - the only fitting result possible on a day set aside to honour the memory of their late, great manager Jimmy Sirrel. The first half was tepid and eminently forgotten, though Aldershot surprised Notts with their strength and mobility up front and they probably felt they should have been ahead at the break. However, six minutes into the second period, the Shots got the goal they had long threatened. It came from only their second corner of the match to that point and was headed in by central defender Anthony Charles off the underside of the bar. Notts County were behind for only three minutes when - also from a set play - they fashioned a leveller. It was an exact replica of a goal scored at Exeter the previous week with the same two players involved. Matt Hamshaw delivered a free-kick so accurately that defender and club captain Michael Johnson was able to steer it home at the back post with the deftest of touches. Either side could have won it after that and Notts County had a scare when a close-range effort from Louis Soares nearly squirmed away from the clutches of goalkeeper Russell Hoult. County have made a habit in recent matches of scoring injury-time goals and so it proved again. In the fourth of five added minutes Richard Butcher rose to a lovely left-wing cross from Jamie Clapham to find the roof of the net for his fourth goal of the season in all competitions. It sent the biggest Meadow Lane crowd of the season deliriously happy, largely because it fittingly honoured Sirrel's memory so perfectly.
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