News By Chris Dunlavy
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Features
/ 6 days agoThe Big Interview: Adam Le Fondre still has targets after goal-laden career
Adam Le Fondre scored 12 goals in his solitary season as a Premier League footballer. That’s a better minutes-per-goal ratio than...
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Features
/ 6 days agoThe Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Richard Brodie – my mission is to stop my players from repeating my big mistakes
Richard Brodie was not, by any stretch of the imagination, the sort of footballer you’d peg as a future manager. Yet...
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/ 2 weeks agoChris Dunlavy: Be careful what Roo wish for
Macclesfield have a Rooney in the dugout, but was it the one they truly desired?
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/ 2 weeks agoChris Dunlavy: Alex Scott grew away from the glare
As kids, aspiring footballers are often told that success depends on sacrifice, graft and living like a monk while your mates...
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Features
/ 2 weeks agoThe Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Danny Crow – my glory days at the top gave me something to crow about
My glory days at the top gave me something to crow about
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/ 3 weeks agoChris Dunlavy: Stepping up is a tall order!
Nick Woltemade – the two-metre Messi – is the talk of Europe after starring for Germany at the Under-21 European Championships.
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/ 4 weeks agoChris Dunlavy: Mark Hughes rounds up the troops
Carlisle United have got a lot wrong in recent years, and question marks remain over Mark Hughes’ capacity to manage in...
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/ 4 weeks agoChris Dunlavy: Age is no longer just a number
Ollie Pearce couldn’t have done much more to earn a shot at the EFL, but even a 30-goal season won’t do...
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/ 1 month agoChris Dunlavy: Simon Grayson’s got his work cut out!
Hartlepool United fans can be forgiven for affording Simon Grayson the sort of welcome reserved for cold-callers and travelling salesmen.
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/ 1 month agoChris Dunlavy: Is this play-off system fair? Stats certainly stack it up!
How fair are the National League play-offs? Not very according to York City, who last week published an open letter criticising...
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/ 1 month agoChris Dunlavy: Perilous Heed heading south
Gateshead lost a manager this week, but so much else has been squandered since the end of a deeply dispiriting season.
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/ 1 month agoChris Dunlavy: EFL clubs scared of cash cost
Julie-Anne Uggla, the co-owner of York City, should probably have dug into the history books before she published an open letter...
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Non-League Paper
/ 2 months agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: Fallen giants aim to repay ardent owners
Two fallen giants. Two play-off underdogs. Two shots at salvation. But who will reclaim their ancestral seat in the EFL?
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/ 2 months agoChris Dunlavy: Play-off pause shifted power
Play-offs are inherently unfair, but the fate of York City and Forest Green Rovers feels particularly cruel.
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/ 7 months agoChris Dunlavy: Matt Uggla has learnt from mistakes
Has anyone heard from Matt Uggla recently? No twitter spats? No accusations of incompetence? Funny that.
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/ 7 months agoChris Dunlavy: The cat is out of the bag, it seems!
NOT so long ago, facing a club from Step 3 was a complete mystery to an EFL or Premier League side....
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/ 12 months agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: Game has to mind the gap
“If anyone knows the effects of prune juice, it’s very simple,” explained the Apprentice star and former owner of Tottenham. “It...
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/ 1 year agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: Actions now speak louder
Whatever the case is with his appointment at Macclesfield, this is unchartered territory for Robbie Savage and the rules by which...
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/ 1 year agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: Fry’s got an eye for a bargain
Barry Fry loves to tell the story of how Peterborough United plucked Dwight Gayle from Dagenham & Redbridge.
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/ 1 year agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: Things can get Ugg-ly
Is it cowardly for the owner of a football club to shy from the limelight? Or simply a sensible precaution?
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/ 1 year agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: Conn can do the job – just like Lee
Chris Conn-Clarke doesn’t look like an athlete, but nor did Lee Tomlin. It didn’t stop him giving Vincent Kompany the fright...
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/ 1 year agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: Get real – 3G is the future
Surely the time has come, then, for the EFL to lift an archaic ban on artificial surfaces that acts as a...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: We’re back in the big time!
Shortly after Chesterfield were relegated from the EFL for the first time in almost a century, caretaker manager Ian Evatt took...
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/ 2 years agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: Look how far we have come
Severa; years ago, whilst living in Oxford, I invited a couple of friends to watch the mighty U’s in action. Chris...
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/ 2 years agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: Grigg’s his own man in the box
Will Grigg spoke last week of being inspired to join Chesterfield after watching Welcome to Wrexham. Yet Paul Mullin, one of...