Chris Dunlavy

SHRIMPS’ DEMISE WAS PREDICTED

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
18 May 2025

Chris DUNLAVY

A FEW weeks ago, I was driving home up the A1 after watching Doncaster Rovers beat Bradford City to seal promotion to
League One.
Up ahead, the traffic slowed, crawled and eventually stopped. Unfortunately, the car in front of me didn’t.
I watched the whole catastrophe unfold in what felt like slow motion; the rapidly diminishing gap, the eventual blaze of brake lights, the inevitable screech and thump. Luckily, nobody was hurt.
It’s an odd feeling to see an accident coming yet be powerless to prevent it, and one that supporters of Morecambe know painful...

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