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Steve Shore: Pleasing all is possible

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
5 September 2021

Steve SHORE
CHELMSFORD CITY CHAIRMAN

YOU can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.” Or so said the fifteenth-century monk and poet, John Lydgate.
He was obviously never chairman of a football club, or maybe just never Chelmsford City Football Club, because I can guarantee there are fans we can never please.
We had two outstanding results over the bank holiday, firstly winning away at Bath City, always a really competitive side with some great players, and then managed a 0-0 draw ...

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