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WHEN DIAMONDS SPARKLED TO COMPLETE MAX’S DREAM

The NLP’S story of a season: Turniback the clock to 2000-2001
By CHRIS DUNLAVY

HISTORY-MAKERS: Rushden & Diamonds celebrate winning promotion to the Football League for the first time
PICTURE: Alamy

BY THE turn of the Millennium, Rushden & Diamonds had it all. An ambitious millionaire owner in Max Griggs. A stadium that wouldn’t have looked out of place in the Championship. A star-laden squad. The only thing missing was promotion to the Football League.
Eight years earlier, the respective chairmen of Rushden Town and Irthlingborough Diamonds had persuaded Griggs...

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