Northern Premier League

BOSS BAN SERVES AS ‘A LESSON’

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
15 March 2020

By David Richardson

GREAT Wakering Rovers chairman David Patient hopes the suspension of manager Steve Butterworth for a betting rule breach can serve as a wake-up call to the rest of Non-League.
The BetVictor Isthmian League club will be without their boss until June while he serves a four month suspension for placing 1,541 bets on football matches between August 3, 2014 to May 29, 2019.
Butterworth, below, who played for the likes of Chelmsford City, Dartford and Brentwood Town, became player-manager of Rovers in January last year before being appointed permanently before the final gam...

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