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NOTHING PURRED LIKE MY BENTLEY

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
10 February 2019

HAVING a chat with a colleague in the office the other day, we were talking about the best players we have witnessed scrapping it out in Non-League football.
I didn’t get the chance to see Jamie Vardy lace his boots up in the lower leagues, but even if I had, he would be doing well to displace my all-time favourite: Morecambe’s man-mountain defender, Jim Bentley.
Watching Bentley in action offered a stark reminder why I was never destined to play football to any kind of standard. The thought of going toe to toe with him in the teeming rain on a freezing January afternoon would l...

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