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‘Good pros and people can bring us success’ – Grimsby Town boss Paul Hurst

Hurst was the man who ended Grimsby’s five-year exile from the EFL when he masterminded victory over Forest Green Rovers in the National League play-off final of 2016.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
18 July 2021

By CHRIS DUNLAVY

GOOD people. Paul Hurst, the manage of Grimsby Town, talks about them constantly as he reflects on his return to Blundell Park.
Now 46, Hurst was the man who ended Grimsby’s five-year exile from the EFL when he masterminded victory over Forest Green Rovers in the National League play-off final of 2016.
Five years on, via a successful stint at Shrewsbury Town, a disastrous one at Ipswich Town and eight volatile months at Scunthorpe, he is back where it all began.
As are Grimsby. The Mariners were relegated in May, after a season beset by off-field rancour that culminated in...

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