Gateshead

Heed project is only just getting going

One challenge is complete but another is only just getting started for Greg Olley and his Gateshead teammates.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
8 May 2022

By Mark Carruthers

HEEDING FOR THE TOP: Greg Olley starts the celebrations by lifting the North trophy
PICTURE: Charlie Waugh

LEADER: Gateshead player-boss Mike Williamson

ONE challenge is complete but another is only just getting started for Greg Olley and his Gateshead teammates.
Monday afternoon brought the culmination of three years of painstaking recovery, rebuild and reinvention as the Heed celebrated their National League North title win.
The club that was forcibly relegated from Non-League’s top tier and taken to the precipice by their controversial former owners was back within...

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