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EVATT THE OPTIMIST

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
25 May 2020

EFL ruling gives Bluebirds hope

By Matt Badcock

BARROW boss Ian Evatt says the EFL’s decision to reject the proposal from League Two clubs to scrap relegation this season has given their own promotion hopes a boost - and the Bluebirds chief insists it’s only right two National League clubs get to reach the ‘pot of gold at the end of the rainbow’.
Evatt’s Barrow sit four points clear of Harrogate Town in the National League table with the regular season abandoned in the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic.
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