Non-League Paper

BARRAT PAINTING HIS OWN PICTURE

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
20 May 2018

SAM BARRATT is a shining example of the different routes into professional football. The 22-year-old moved this week from Maidenhead United to League One side Southend United, and he fully deserves it.
While many young footballers start out in academies before dropping into Non-League and bouncing back again, Barratt has taken the country route.
He’s had trials at clubs like Crystal Palace and Reading, but at heart he is a product of Non-League football where he started earning his stripes as a 16-year-old in the Hellenic League Division One East with Bracknell Town and then in the He...

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