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Gregor Robertson

ALLEN’S MAKING THE RIGHTCALLS

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
17 June 2018

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I’ll be honest, my first taste of National League football was something of an eye-opener. After more than a decade of playing in the Football League, a day after I’d signed for Grimsby Town, in January 2015, I was on a team bus heading down to Eastleigh.
When we arrived at Ten Acres, on a freezing cold Tuesday night, we took a stroll out to look at the pitch. I remember, as I looked around at the cracked concrete terraces, the lacerated turf, a few of the lads commented on how good they thought ...

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