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IT’S BEEN AN EPIC JOURNEY

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
26 May 2019

CELEBRATING A FOOTBALL LANDMARK

DAVID EMERY
THE NLP FOUNDER LOOKS BACK AT THE PAPER’S HIGHS AND LOWS
LIKE many good ideas, The Non-League Paper was born from the wreckage of another.
Back in 1998, I had left my job as head of sport at the Daily Express to launch Britain’s answer to L’Equipe, the great daily French sports newspaper.
It was a grandiose plan and after months of beating a path to city investors, millionaire entrepreneur Keith Young, who had conceived the plan, had to admit it wasn’t going to happen seven days a week.
Instead, to a fanfare of media ...

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