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Top Citizens are a model of progress

IT may seem a strange statement for a club that has just been knocked out of the FA Cup and are languishing at the wrong end of Southern League Premier South, but Winchester City have never had it so good.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
13 October 2024

Top Citizens

By Richard Edwards

IT may seem a strange statement for a club that has just been knocked out of the FA Cup and are languishing at the wrong end of Southern League Premier South, but Winchester City have never had it so good.
Ken Raisbeck is speaking to The Non-League Paper on a grey October day. Looking out over a pristine new 3G artificial turf pitch, though, and it’s easy to see why the future of the south coast club looks so bright.
“We needed to find a sustainable way for the club to exist,” he says. “It wasn’t connected to the community, I had been the chairman of the junior section p...

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