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TARPEY DEAL TO THE WIRE

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
3 September 2017

DAVE TARPEY finally fulfilled his lifetime ambition of becoming a Football League player – but thanks to his chairman’s five-a-side match, a dodgy fax machine and a painfully slow email connection it almost never happened!
The Maidenhead United striker, 28, is a full-time professional for the first time as he secured a very, very, very last-minute switch to League Two Barnet on transfer deadline day.
He went for a “substantial” record fee, but had the move happened two months earlier, they wouldn’t have earned a penny.
It looked like he had given up hope after ...

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