Non-League Paper

‘SWIFTS WOE STILL PLAGUES ME NOW’

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
10 May 2020

Hardman Dicks just can’t forget play-off misery
By Hugo Varley

SO CLOSE: Dicks led Heybridge Swifts to the verge of promotion, only to be cruelly denied
PICTURE: Tony Fowles

HE MAY be on the cusp of a return to the promised land of the Premier League but Julian Dicks can’t help but grimace when recounting his whirlwind experience of the highs and lows of Non-League football in east Essex last season.
Affectionately known as The Terminator during his playing days, hardman Dicks became a legend on the terraces at the Boleyn Ground over 10 years in the West Ham United backline, ...

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