Chris Dunlavy

FINALLY YORK GOT IT RIGHT!

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
18 May 2025

Chris DUNLAVY
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

PLENTY TO SMILE ABOUT: Ollie Pearce, right, and York City have been fantastic all season
PICTURE: Tom Poole

WHEN Dean Brennan sat down last summer to plot Barnet’s return to the EFL, he reeled off a list of clubs he thought would provide stiff competition.
Forest Green. Rochdale. Oldham. Southend. Sutton. Yet never in his wildest dreams did the Irishman imagine York City would be the team to push his side over the 100-point barrier.
And why would he? The Minstermen had spent the previous two seasons ripping through managers and sig...

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