Non-League Paper

PIPE DOWN, PEP

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
7 January 2018

IT must be the holiday season when you get Premier League managers moaning about the amount of football their teams are playing.
Pep Guardiola is the latest to complain about the winter schedule – even though he has millions of pounds worth of talent sitting and waiting on his subs bench!
In contrast, National League managers had to play out four games in nine days without having the luxury of rotating their squads! Did you hear any of them moaning?
GEORGE BARRETT, Middlesbrough

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