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IT wasn’t so long ago Harborough Town played in a three-sided ground with a sloping grass pitch that regularly flooded – but how things have changed!

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
27 August 2023

The ceiling

HARBOROUGH TOWN: FROM PARK FOOTBALL TO STEP 4
By MATT BADCOCK

IT wasn’t so long ago Harborough Town played in a three-sided ground with a sloping grass pitch that regularly flooded.
In many ways, that was the least of their problems. Mis-managed, fragmented, youth teams scattered around the town, haemorrhaging money and even in breach of funding agreements; closure was effectively less than 48 hours away.
“I can only describe the club I came to as like a child who had been given a Christmas present without instructions,” says Laurence Jones, director of strategy and partnerships as well...

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