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I THOUGHT I WAS IN A PICKLE, NOW I’M A SPSPART OF HISTORY

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
16 April 2017

By MATT BADCOCK

ALUN Armstrong was on the way to confirm his role as Blyth Spartans’ assistant manager when his phone rang. It was boss Tom Wade and there had been a change of plan.
“They’d obviously signed my son Luke in the summer and I went to watch a couple of games,” Armstrong, who had been working at Middlesbrough’s academy, explains.
“Tom asked if I could do some coaching, but I couldn’t because I was working on the same nights at Middlesbrough.
Then I got a phone call from Tom asking if I could come and be his assistant with a view to tak...

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