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PARKIN PAIN EVEN AFTER TROPHY SUCCESS

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
28 May 2017

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By SAM ELLIOTT
Relegation still haunts Jon

HE KNOWS it didn’t make up for anything. He knows as well that it was far too little, far too late.
But the sheer fact that Jon Parkin’s powerfully broad shoulders were still carrying the weight of disappointment even in the aftermath of his club’s greatest moment for years was a measure of the man.
“It’s great obviously to win at a place like this, but at the end of the day you can’t escape the fact that all these brilliant fans we had at Wembley have had two years of hurt,” said the striker.
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