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Clarets are just the job!

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
29 October 2023

100% boss reveals his unlikely secret
By Jon Couch

Paul Johnson has revealed the rather unlikely secret behind English football’s only remaining 100 per cent record – less time on the training field!
Johnson’s Farnham Town have won their opening 11 matches in Combined Counties Premier South – the only team in the top ten tiers of the pyramid yet to drop a league point.
But while their rivals are forced to put in the man hours in a bid to catch the ambitious Surrey club, Clarets boss Johnson is benefitting from a far less taxing schedule.
“We train once a week, and if we don’t have a game...

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