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Clitheroe FC: Danny Wilkins has got the board’s backing

There was a moment when Danny Wilkins realised that becoming Clitheroe FC’s next chairman might not be such a mad idea.
PLENTY TO PONDER: Danny Wilkins holds a rather unusual player/chairman role at Clitheroe PICTURE: Jack Carysforth/ Horton Media

By Andrew Simpson

There was a moment when Danny Wilkins realised that becoming Clitheroe FC’s next chairman might not be such a mad idea.
He stayed up late one night, when it was quiet, and wrote everything down that he’d change or do differently.
“I got it out of my head and onto paper,” he told The NLP.
“Then I sent my proposal to the board and said; ‘Take it or leave it’.”
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Those who sounded him out a few days earlier about taking the job already had an inkling they’d be impressed with what they read.
He was appointed not long after, and if eyebrows were raised in response, Wilk...

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