Jon seeks happy ending this time

By John Lyons

STAYING TIGHT: Cobblers captain Jon Guthrie, left, challenges Hartlepool’s Rollin Menayese
PICTURE: Alamy

Determined Northampton Town skipper Jon Guthrie has set his sights on promotion – to help erase the memory of last season’s final day agony.
Heading into the last game of the League Two campaign, the Cobblers held the third and final automatic promotion ticket. A 3-1 win at Barrow would normally have been enough to get the job done, but fourth-placed Bristol Rovers demolished already-relegated Scunthorpe 7-0 to overturn a five-goal deficit and pip Northampton on goals s...

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