Chris Dunlavy

CHRIS DUNLAVY: We go our own way!

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
25 June 2023

Chris DUNLAVY
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

TOP TALENTS: But Kidderminster’s new signing Jack Lambert and Blyth’s Robbie Dale, inset, have their reasons for not joining EFL clubs

STEVE Morison, the new and thoroughly unexpected manager of Hornchurch, bristled when I asked how he’d cope with coaching players of a lesser standard than the Cardiff City stars he’d recently guided to Championship safety.
“Listen,” he responded, with typical bluntness. “There’s lots of reasons why people drop a level or play in Non-League, and it’s not always because they’re not good enough.
“They might not be a...

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