Non-League Paper

NEVIN PLAYS A STARRING ROLE

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
19 July 2020

By Neil Maskell

TACTICS: Nevin Saroya gives advice to one of his Maidenhead United players. Insets: At Brentford and Mean Machine poster
PIC: Darren Woolley

There can’t be many fi lm stars who end up making a career in football management but Nevin Saroya is one such.
Saroya appeared in the 2001 movie ‘Mean Machine’ alongside the likes of Jason Statham, Danny Dyer and Vinnie Jones.
But the now retired ex-pro didn’t take a leaf out of Jones’s character’s unorthodox coaching manual when taking the reins at FA Women’s National League Division ...

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