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BRAVE KEVIN SHOWS THE WAY FORWARD

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
23 July 2017

By Sam Elliott
IF ANY of the National League’s many member clubs in attendance at the annual pre-season meeting on Wednesday were in need of some inspiration ahead of the big kick-off, they certainly found it.
In amongst the usual summer rule run-down, raised hands and divisional housekeeping, a special speech was delivered by a man who knows a thing or two about winning when it matters the most.
Kevin Webber was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in August 2014, but he simply refuses to accept defeat.
Webber, a huge Non- League football fan and a follower of AFC Wimbledon, compl...

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