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- ↑ "Senior Gold Cup Winners 2013" . Retrieved 18 May 2013.
- ↑ "Newport leave it late in Gold Cup" . Retrieved 10 May 2014.
- ↑ "Newport storm to Gold Cup victory" . Retrieved 1 May 2015.