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‘I FEEL SO SORRY FOR MERTHYR’, SAYS BORO BOSS DAY

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
21 October 2018

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By Jon Couch
SPENCER DAY saw his Farnborough side paired with league rivals Merthyr Town in a tasty Trophy tie and declared “I feel sorry for them”.
But this was no awkward attempt at arrogance or mind games towards his Welsh visitors, the Boro chief is genuinely sympathetic at Merthyr’s plight at having to make the 300-mile round trip to north-east Hampshire for the second time this season. “It’s not fair on them, I feel for them, I really do,” said Day, who took the Evo-Stik Southern Premier South side to the quarter-finals in 2015, losing to eventual w...

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