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I THOUGHT I WAS IN A PICKLE, NOW I’M A SPSPART OF HISTORY

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By MATT BADCOCK

ALUN Armstrong was on the way to confirm his role as Blyth Spartans’ assistant manager when his phone rang. It was boss Tom Wade and there had been a change of plan.
“They’d obviously signed my son Luke in the summer and I went to watch a couple of games,” Armstrong, who had been working at Middlesbrough’s academy, explains.
“Tom asked if I could do some coaching, but I couldn’t because I was working on the same nights at Middlesbrough.
Then I got a phone call from Tom asking if I could come and be his assistant with a view to tak...

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