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Team won’t be torn apart this time, insists Garrard

The heartbreak was etched across Luke Garrard’s face, the tears visibly filled his eyes when he talked about going to see his family and feeling like “Daddy has failed”.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
17 May 2026

By Matt Badcock
The heartbreak was etched across Luke Garrard’s face, the tears visibly filled his eyes when he talked about going to see his family and feeling like “Daddy has failed”.

But, still, the Boreham Wood manager – who left the club in 2024 after relegation to Step 2 before returning nearly six months later to lead this, as yet unfinished, tale of redemption – worked his way down the mixed zone, giving the media his time and thoughts of coming within minutes of taking his club into the EFL.
“I have got heartache today, Jimmy McNulty has got joy,” Garrard told The NLP. “Jimmy McNu...

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