Non-League Paper

The Grand arena, it’s where we want to be

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
19 July 2020

By John Lyons
EVERGREEN defender Simon Grand admits he would have always regretted having ‘unfinished business’ if he hadn’t volunteered his services for the play-offs.
With Chester weighing up whether they could afford to take part, Grand and his teammates offered to forgo their wages to make it possible.
As a new dad to 12-week-old Tommy and home-schooling daughter Lola, seven, during lockdown, the 36-year-old has plenty on his plate. But the prospect of a sixth career promotion was something he couldn’t turn down.
“In any other line of work, if you asked som...

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