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IT’S A JOB OF RELIABILITY AND TRUST, WE’RE MISUNDERSTOOD

Across 56 pages of a document on The FA’s website, there are 2,382 names from around the world.

The long list is all the intermediaries registered with English football’s governing body with a warning at the top to contact The FA’s Intermediary Team if someone you are working with isn’t named on it.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
13 March 2022

NLP TALKING POINT: WHAT’S IT LIKE REPRESENTING NON-LEAGUE PLAYERS?
By MATT BADCOCK

ACROSS 56 pages of a document on The FA’s website, there are 2,382 names from around the world.
The long list is all the intermediaries registered with English football’s governing body with a warning at the top to contact The FA’s Intermediary Team if someone you are working with isn’t named on it.
It’s a glimpse into a vast and overwhelming part of the football that is, often, held up as the epitome of the game’s ills and perception of vast wealth and power.
But, like all industries, there is light and d...

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