Non-League Paper

TALENT POOL RUNS DEEP

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
18 March 2018

AND THEN there were three. To Jamie Vardy in the England squad, add two more who have graced the Non-League game, in Nick Pope, the Burnley goalkeeper, and Alfie Mawson, the Swansea City centre back.
Pope began with Bury Town before, while at Charlton, having spells with Harrow Borough, Welling United, Cambridge United and Aldershot Town. Mawson played for Maidenhead, Luton Town and Welling while on the books of Brentford.
Credit to them. They have shown what is possible to legions in the National League if hard work and persistence is allied to talent.
There will be some who lament that...

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