Non-League Paper

SPURRED ON BY CUP TONIC

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
3 September 2017

Matt BADCOCK

FAMILY AFFAIR: Marlow boss Mark Bartley, captain Chris Ovenden and fans with the FA Cup
PICTURE: The FA

MARLOW chairman Terry Staines will never forget the day his phone rang with one of football’s most famous names on the other end.
“I had a phone call at home,” Staines, whose association with the Blues goes back to 1974 when he was a player, recalls. “‘Mr Staines – this is Bill Nicholson here from Tottenham Hotspur. Can I send one of my scouts along to watch your game?’ I’m old enough to remember Bill Nicholson’s Spurs ...

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