Non-League Paper

BURRELL HAS GROUND OUT BIG CHANCE

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
2 August 2020

By Chris Dunlavy
HARROGATE Town have come a long way since Warren Burrell pitched up at Wetherby Road for a trial in the summer of 2009.
Skint and struggling in the novice hands of Simon Weaver, Town were a world away from the team that will today challenge Notts County for a place in the Football League.
“From then to now is chalk and cheese,” says the 30-year-old defender, who had just been released by Mansfield.
“The gaffer had just got the job and was trying to find his feet. He was still playing, finding it too much. We had nowhere to train. The pitch was no good. The...

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