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NIP THE TROUBLE IN THE BUD

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
16 September 2018

Ian RIDLEY

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THE IMAGE of the Non-League game, certainly that of outsiders, is of salt-of-the-earth characters keeping their community clubs going, and of honest players and real football. As we go into the big FA Cup weeks of Autumn, attracting more attention as it does, it is a view likely to be promoted more widely.
Those of us who are involved or watch regularly, however, know that the image can be more, shall we say, real.
Passions, and the friction they can cause inside clubs,...

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