Pearson was literally about to sign a new deal to make it a fifth year at Wrexham when the call from Hurst to ask him back to the Mariners, the club he helped to promotion through the 2015 play-offs.
Oates, inset, is now Pools’ top scorer, one of the National League’s leading strikers and took home three player of the year awards. Last weekend, he demolished a previously stout Bromley back four as Pools progressed through the play-off eliminator.
The JE3 Foundation, which was founded just weeks after the shock death of Edinburgh aged 49 on June 8, 2019, has already donated nine defibrillators in less than 12 months, including the latest equipment to Southend United Football Club, AFC Rushden & Diamonds, and Mavericks RFC.
Last month brought the long-awaited confirmation that the Wearside League outfit were one of three clubs to be elevated into the Northern League Second Division ahead of the 2021-22 season.
The former Newcastle United and Wolves centre-back has always been open to new ideas and he is embracing a Japanese concept as he prepares for his third season in charge of the Tyneside outfit.
Loach is thought of as one of the best keepers outside of the Football League and is Rowe’s first signing since their Eliminator defeat to Notts County last weekend.
The 39-year-old, who also played for Thurrock, was one of eight ringleaders of an organised crime group in Essex which supplied cocaine to county lines gangs.
The German manager threw himself into the deep end at Ebbsfleet United last June in the toughest of circumstances, but impressed before the National League South season ended early.
Striker Robinson is the all-time leading scorer in the National League South thanks to goal-laden stints with the Hawks, Hemel Hempstead and Billericay Town, who he has left this summer.
In the latest in our series, we pick the brains of serial promotion winner Rob Smith, the man who guided Willenhall Town, AFC Telford United and Hednesford Town to higher levels, alongside trusty assistant Larry Chambers
Bower is looking forward to a line being drawn under the whole saga ahead of the new season after the club, like many others, opted to stop playing last season because of finances and player welfare concerns.
Postponements, Covid-19 outbreaks and a protracted wrangle over the termination of the football at Step 2 meant Penn’s side had played just 15 matches by the time the National North campaign was finally voided in February.
The 24-year-old former Wealdstone and Maidenhead United left back has signed for joint-bosses Neil Baker and Jon Underwood after moving on from Bath City because of the travelling.