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REEVES: IT WASN’T JUST A SPUR OF THE MOMENT

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
12 April 2020

By Andy Mitchell

REASON: Chris Reeves

POOLE Town chairman Chris Reeves refuted criticism of advice to scrap the season and argued a “massive consultation process” had drawn support from an “overwhelming majority of clubs”.
The long-serving Dolphins chief serves on the FA’s Alliance Leagues Committee which, along with the Leagues Committee, recommended making 2019-20 null and void in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.
Representatives of more than 150 clubs put names to a letter to the FA from lawyers questioning the validity of the proposal and how the decis...

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