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One year on: When the Covid crisis took over the world

Football was our focus – little did we know what was to follow

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
14 March 2021

By David Richardson and Matt Badcock

TAKE IT ALL IN: Ebbsfleet’s Josh Payne celebrates with fans after victory at FC Halifax Town in the final game of the regulation 2019-20 season.
PICTURE: PA Images

KEVIN Watson was sat in the St Albans Noke Hotel with his Ebbsfleet United players and staff when he fired off a tweet to the National League.
“We are waiting to see whether we should leave or not? It’s a long way to Halifax,” he wrote. “Hoping for a sensible decision like other governing bodies have made. I’m sure I speak for others in the same boat.”
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