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Charlie Goode had big decisions to make in Non-League long before Premier League experience

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
22 August 2021

By David Richardson

PREMIER CLASS: Brentford’s Charlie Goode learned his craft at Hendon under
PICTURES: Alamy and Thom Lang/HRBFC

CHARLIE Goode had a difficult transfer decision to make long before Brentford made him Northampton Town’s most expensive sale.
The then-19-year-old centre-back had been impressing for AFC Hayes in the Southern League Division One Central after moving up from Step 5 outfit Hadley in 2014.
“We’d put in a seven-day approach but at the same time so had three clubs,” said Hampton & Richmond manager Gary McCann, who was trying to sign him at Isthmian Premie...

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