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CLOUGH EXIT LEFT A STORM BREWING AT THE BOOKIES

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
1 July 2018

THIS week, we take a look back to the 2008-09 season when Burton Albion – following a record-breaking start to the campaign – just about managed to limp over the line and seal their promotion to the Football League after losing their high-profile manager Nigel Clough to Derby County mid-season
IT IS the final day of the 2008-09 season and Burton striker Shaun Harrad is watching disaster unfold.

INS AND OUTS: Manager Nigel Clough, left, quit for Derby County midway through the season, replaced by Roy McFarland, right

Two months earlier, the Brewers sat 19 points clear at...

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