Non-League Paper

ALLEN KEEPS ON SHOUTING THE ODDS!

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
20 May 2018

Chesterfield turn to Maverick Man

By Chris Dunlavy

NEVER A DULL MOMENT WITH MAD DOG: Martin Allen is one of the game’s biggest characters
PICTURE: Action Images

TO call Chesterfield’s new manager an eccentric is a little like saying Muhammad Ali was talkative.
From leaping into the Solent and swimming across the Tees to begging a bed on the Notts County club website, Martin Allen has re-written the rulebook on maverick management. The 52-year-old’S antics are varied, legendary. Some are mundane – in a brief three-month spell at Leicester, he decided th...

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