News By Chris Dunlavy
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 9 months 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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Chris Dunlavy
/ 9 months 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
/ 10 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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Chris Dunlavy
/ 10 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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Chris Dunlavy
/ 1 year 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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Chris Dunlavy
/ 1 year 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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Chris Dunlavy
/ 2 years 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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Chris Dunlavy
/ 2 years 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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Chris Dunlavy
/ 2 years 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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Chris Dunlavy
/ 2 years 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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Chris Dunlavy
/ 2 years 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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Chris Dunlavy
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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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Chris Dunlavy
/ 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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Chris Dunlavy
/ 3 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...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 3 years agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: No salutes for cup idea
Chris DUNLAVY A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL PLANS to overhaul the FA Cup have sparked predictable – and justifiable – outrage...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 3 years agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: Lessons to be learned
What to make of Matt Uggla, the 29-year-old son of a billionaire who has promised to take York City back to...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 3 years agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: We go our own way!
STEVE Morison, the new and thoroughly unexpected manager of Hornchurch, bristled when I asked how he’d cope with coaching players of...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 3 years agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: It’s time for a cap on owners
When the EFL announced strict new rules aimed at preventing clubs falling into the wrong hands, it begged an obvious question. ...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 3 years agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: New Urchins boss Morison bucks the trend
Being snobby is an accusation that could never be levelled at Steve Morison, who accepted an offer to manage Isthmian Premier...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 3 years agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: A team that time forgot
Relegation from League Two is usually the result of long-term neglect or financial mismanagement, and frequently both.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 3 years agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: Learn respect, like Cloughie!
Just imagine what Brian Clough would have made of Roma and Jose Mourinho, whose shameful antics in Wednesday’s Europa League final...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 3 years agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: Money is the 3-up charter
Paul Cook was right when he called Notts County’s failure to win automatic promotion a ‘sporting disgrace’.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 3 years agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: Play-offs at their finest!
Manchester City’s 1-1 draw with Real Madrid at the Bernabeu was intriguing, but never exciting. First legs rarely are. Like the...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 4 years agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: The big money is filtering down!
David Sharpe always dreamed of running a professional football club. Until, that is, he discovered how much it cost.







