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Superstar show is so refreshing

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
22 July 2018

IT has been so refreshing so far this summer to see teams such as Arsenal and Liverpool take strong squads to pre-season friendlies against Non-League opponents.
With most Premier League teams flying around the globe to take part in lucrative pre-season tours, I feared such clubs may elect to do away with playing domestic friendlies, or at least save their star players for more commercially-driven friendlies.
But as I glanced at the front page of The NLP last weekend to see a picture of Arsenal’s £60 million man Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang playing against Boreham Wood, I realised ...

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