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Simon Grayson: Son, you’ll be a marked man

Simon Grayson has warned son Joe that he won’t get a kick when Hartlepool face Gateshead on Tuesday night!

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
21 September 2025

By Chris Dunlavy

FAMILY TIES: Hartlepool United manager Simon Grayson, and, inset above, son Joe at Gateshead
PICTURE: Alamy

SIMON Grayson has warned son Joe that he won’t get a kick when Hartlepool face Gateshead on Tuesday night!
The former Leeds and Preston boss is preparing to take Pools to Tyneside, where 26-year-old Joe plays as a centre-half for Alun Armstrong’s side.
“He came up the other day and we had a laugh about it,” says Grayson, whose side had lost just one of their first nine games ahead of yesterday’s trip to Aldershot.
“I just said to him, ‘You do realise you won’t be ...

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