Non-League Paper

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
17 December 2017

January is the month that counts

Forgive me for using an example from the Football League to make my point here, but I am going somewhere with this… The great Brian Clough did not mix his words when it was put to him that his Nottingham Forest side won promotion from the second division in 1976-77 because they got ‘lucky’. With the top three going up, Forest edged out Bolton in the race for the top flight courtesy of a 1-0 win against Millwall in the final game of the season, victory coming via a Jon Moore own-goal. The critics didn’t just point to that game, but al...

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