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Bentley's heroics go global!!!

GAFC News9 Mar 2015 - 10:00
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Bentley's heroics go viral

Grays Athletic player/manager Mark Bentley's superb goal and penalty save against midweek opponents Hampton & Richmond Borough has been a huge hit, hitting national newspapers and websites and going viral within the space of a few hours.

Blues supporter Kevin James filmed last week's match and posted a video on YouTube. Within hours the national press picked up on the story with one newspaper asking is Mark Bentley the best player/manager of all time?

Since posting the video on Youtube James video has been viewed over 20,000 times and is a talking point on social media websites.

The Mirror picked up on the story http://http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/row-zed/grays-athletic-manager-subs-himself-5292879

As did the Telegraph http://babb.telegraph.co.uk/2015/03/manager-subs-himself-on-at-2-1-down-scores-equaliser-goes-in-goal-to-save-penalty-team-win-3-2/

BBC Radio 5live also picked up on the story click on the link and go to 40mins 20secs http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b053zrdb

As did the BBC Non league show go to 42minutes in to hear Benno describe the penalty save and goal http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b054p05n

The story has also gone global with NBC Soccer global picking up the story http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2015/03/08/video-hero-manager-of-semi-pro-team-scores-goal-saves-penalty/

The club would like to thank Kevin for posting the film online as this is a great story for the club.

To view the original film go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykhnEi8L5LQ&feature=youtu.be

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