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Martyrs weren’t to be fooled by £6m ‘incentive’

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MERTHYR Town’s vote to kick out the Football Association of Wales’ offer to join the JD Cymru Premier League – by 96 per cent of the voters of the fans-owned club – was inevitable. Even if he Martyrs were not at the top of the Southern League Premier South and aiming for level two of the English Non-League pyramid, I think the outcome would have been the same. The £6m incentive was in any case misleading. Perhaps some thought the FAW were going to give them that amount to do with what they liked. Only £2m was guaranteed. The &#x...

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