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GAFFER HIGGY PLANS A POOL PARTY

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
2 June 2019

GAFFER HIGGY

’We played decent stuff last year and were not far away’

By CHRIS DUNLAVY

”I AM NOT DAFT. I KNOW WHAT IS NEEDED” – Craig Hignett
WHEN Hartlepool were relegated to the National League on the final day of the 2016-17 season, few foresaw a lengthy stay.
“The prevailing feeling,” says Nick Loughlin, the Northern Echo’s man at the Vic, “was ‘Oh, we’ll get out of there no bother’.” Bother, though, is exactly what transpired. Insipid performances. Mutinous fans.
Financial strife and courtroom battles. Raj Singh, wh...

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