Non-League Paper

VICKERS MOURN LOSS OF ‘MR VCD’ MARTIN

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
25 May 2020

By Dave Watters

SAD LOSS: Martin Ford

VCD Athletic and the Isthmian League are mourning the passing of former manager and club legend Martin Ford after he lost his battle with cancer.
Saddened officials at the Isthmian League South East Division’s Vickers announced the death of their long-serving former manager and “most influential person” in the club’s history on Tuesday after learning of his death.
After taking the reins at the Crayford-based club in south east London in 1993, he’d guided the Vickers for more than a decade before standing down at Oakwood ...

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