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Matt Gray has steered his taxi U’s-turn with title winning Sutton United

The triumph, secured last Sunday with a resounding 3-0 victory over Hartlepool United, will go down as one of the greatest Non-League stories ever fold.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
30 May 2021

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By DAVID RICHARDSON

‘TAXI for Matt Gray’ read one post on the Sutton United fans’ forum in late October 2019.
The U’s were in the middle of a 14-game run that featured just one win under their new boss.
Gray, 39, had been coaching for more than a decade before he took what was described by many at the time as the hardest job in Non-League football.
Paul Doswell had unexpectedly stood down after 11 years as manager, driving Sutton from Step 3 to the National League play-offs, and an FA Cup fifth round clash against Arsenal in 2017.
With that tie still fresh in the memory, a 5-2 defeat at lo...

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