Non-League Paper

BEING IN THE HOT SEAT IS ELEMENTARY FOR WATSON

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
15 October 2017

STEVE WATSON cut a confident figure as he walked into a busy press conference to mark his appointment as new Gateshead manager.
Maybe that shouldn’t be a surprise. After all, this is a man who once performed a somersault before taking a throw-in during a Tees-Tyne derby between Middlesborough and Watson’s Newcastle United.He was 17 at the time.
The confident demeanour was matched by his first words as Gateshead boss. “I am here to be successful;
I am here to take this club into the Football League” proclaimed the former Aston Villa and Everton star.
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