Non-League Paper

Gaffer Kevin: My players will handle the pressure

AFC Telford United manager Kev Wilkin says coping with the demands of an expectant fanbase will be critical to the club’s chances of successs this season.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
14 July 2024

By Chris Dunlavy

AFC TELFORD United manager Kev Wilkin says coping with the demands of an expectant fanbase will be critical to the club’s chances of successs this season.
Last term’s 1-0 defeat to Leamington in the Southern Premier Central play-off final condemned the Bucks to a second successive season at Step 3.
It is unfamiliar – not to mention unwelcome – territory for a club who have spent the majority of their 20-year existence in Non-League’s top two tiers and routinely attract four-figure gates.
Nothing less than promotion will suffice this term and Wilkin admits it is a subject h...

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