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BOOTHAM BOW A DAMP SQUIB!

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
12 July 2020

Chris DUNLAVY
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL
IN a fortnight,I hope to be one of the fortunate few allowed into Bootham Crescent for York City’s play-of f semi-final against Altrincham or Chester.
Hopefully,it will actually happen. Six years ago,I walked from my home in the city’s South Bank to watch the Minstermen face Fleetwood in the first le g of the League Two play-offs.
It was not a pleasant stroll. Rain fell in blinding leaden sheets on that Saturday evening,as it had for much of the previous 24 hours. Clothes were soaked. Drains overwhelmed. At Ouse Bridge,the King’s Arms...

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