Non-League Paper

TORQUAY HAVEN’T BINNED JOHNSON JUST YET!

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
21 October 2018

By Tom Blackett

CONFUSION: Gary Johnson

FOOTBALL managers often get told their teams are a load of rubbish – but Torquay United boss Gary Johnson didn’t expect to hear it on the radio after a case of the wrong phone number.
Johnson thought he was going on BBC Radio Cornwall on Thursday to talk about his National League South side.
But the first question he was asked by presenter Laurence Reed wasn’t about the Gulls. The producer had accidentally dialled Johnson’s number when meaning to get the owner of a skip company on the line.
Johnson must have thought he was p...

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