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I’ll be like Warnock or Hodgson still plugging away in my 70s!

Gary Johnson is 67 and well into the fourth decade of a managerial career that began at Newmarket in 1986 – but the Torquay United boss has no intention of packing away the cones and hanging up the tracksuit yet.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
25 June 2023

RRELEGATION WON’T ALTER GARY JOHNSON’S FUTURE PLANS
BY CHRIS DUNLAVY

GARY Johnson is 67 and well into the fourth decade of a managerial career that began at Newmarket in 1986 - but the Torquay United boss has no intention of packing away the cones and hanging up the tracksuit yet.
“No chance,” says Johnson. “I’m going to be like Neil Warnock or Roy Hodgson, still plugging away in my seventies. Just a little bit lower down!”
Johnson is certainly operating at a lower level than he might have hoped. Last season’s unexpected relegation to National League South came just four years after he’d...

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