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LEE FOWLER: Enjoy success while you can, reality soon kicks in!

There’s not much time to savour a promotion when you are a football manager – you can’t miss a beat when it comes to preparing for the new season.

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
2 June 2024

Lee FOWLER
CONFERENCE WINNER AND FLINT TOWN UNITED FC MANAGER

THERE’S not much time to savour a promotion when you are a football manager – you can’t miss a beat when it comes to preparing for the new season.
I’m really guilty of not enjoying it enough. As a player, when we won the title at Ilkeston in my first management job, and now, I always look at what’s next and how we – or I – can be better.
Here at Flint Town United we have a huge challenge ahead. It’s one we’re relishing after winning promotion to the JD Cymru Premier.
It’s a big step at the best of times. Even more so after it qu...

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