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Sudden fall of the Iron curtain!

How can it be that just 13 years after demanding ‘Bring on Shearer’, the Iron are preparing to host the likes of Banbury and Curzon Ashton in National League North next season?

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
16 April 2023

Sudden fall

SCUNTHORPE ARE RELEGATED AGAIN
CHRIS SUMPTER plots Scunthorpe United’s sad demise from Championship to National League North

DOWN AND OUT: Scunthorpe United have suffered a second successive relegation
PICTURE: Luke Broughton

IT is a moment that encapsulates the overarching success for which Scunthorpe United were once renowned.
In the glow of Wembley fireworks, sparked by promotion back to the Championship in 2009, club captain Cliff Byrne grabbed from the crowd a piece of cardboard on which scrawled in marker pen were the words ‘Bring on Shearer’.
It signalled the Iron’s return to ...

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