With only 9 points more than Lowestoft, Concord Rangers can be beaten on Saturday.
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I think that bit at the start's a fronted adverbial phrase, an idea brought to schools in 2014 some 4 decades after the writer left school. Think of it as an assist, similar to a cross by Bullent from near the corner which Belmar puts away.
Of course it might not be.