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MOLBY’S MASTERS RALLIED TO LEAVE DIAMONDS IN THE SHADE

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
7 June 2026

The NLP’S story of a season: Turning back the clock to 1999-2000
By CHRIS DUNLAVY

AS Kidderminster’s beaten players trudged off the Nene Park pitch on a blistering afternoon in August 1999, few imagined that the Worcestershire side were poised to take the Conference by storm.
Bereft of fluency and defensively fragile, Kiddy had just lost 5-3 to pre-season favourites Rushden & Diamonds, whose state-of-the-art stadium, limitless budget and star-studded squad embodied the soaring ambition of their owner, the Dr Martens supremo Max Griggs.
Rushden went top that day, a...

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