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GREGOR ROBERTSON: “It’s true, anything is possible”

It’s hard to decide which aspect of Andy Mangan’s proposed move from the coaching staff of Stockport County to Real Madrid was more astonishing.

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Gregor Robertson
15 September 2024

Gregor ROBERTSON
FOOTBALLER TURNED JOURNALIST

It’s hard to decide which aspect of Andy Mangan’s proposed move from the coaching staff of Stockport County to Real Madrid was more astonishing.
The fact that the former Forest Green, Fleetwood Town, Wrexham and Tranmere Rovers striker was genuinely on the brink of swapping Edgeley Park for the Santiago Bernabéu last week, or the way that move of a lifetime was cruelly extinguished by post-Brexit red tape and work permit regulations.
Just imagine. Mangan could have been travelling to San Sebastián with Kylian Mbappe and Carlo Ancelotti to face ...

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