Eastbourne Borough

Eastbourne Borough’s Matt Gray is out to fulfil a fairytale once again

Matt Gray reckons Eastbourne Borough are getting an upgrade on the manager who led Sutton United into the Football League.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
13 July 2025

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By John Lyons

Matt Gray reckons Eastbourne Borough are getting an upgrade on the manager who led Sutton United into the Football League.
It was in Gray’s second season at the U’s helm, 2020-21, that he led the unfancied Non-League stalwarts to the National League title, much to the chagrin of the likes of Stockport County, Wrexham, Chesterfield and Notts County.
There was then an eighth-place finish in League Two against all odds and a heartbreaking 4-2 defeat to Rotherham in extra-time in the Papa Johns Trophy final at Wembley, the League One Millers making it 2-2 in the sixth minute of s...

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