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WATCH: It’s no video nasty for Hitchin Town boss Mark Burke!

MOST managers would use a specially-edited DVD, others might flash up a YouTube video on their iPad or phone.

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MOST managers would use a specially-edited DVD, others might flash up a YouTube video on their iPad or phone.

But when Hitchin Town boss Mark Burke wants to show his players how he wants them to perform, he drags them into a dark corner of his office at the North Herts Arena where the Canaries train, and turns on the CCTV monitor.

There the Top Field legend, who made over 700 appearances at centre-half, talks his high-flying Canaries – and any other random visitors to Baldock Town’s old Norton Road home – through grainy footage of a Mark Hughes-style scissor-kick he recently pulled off in training with the youth team.

“Watch the movement, have a look…he ghosts round to the back stick…and whoah!” Burke tells his troops, before pointing to his celebration in front of teenage defender Charlie Black, son of former Luton, Grimsby, Nottingham Forest and Northern Ireland winger Kingsley.

“Look, Charlie’s devastated, absolutely devastated,” adds the 48-year-old. His first-team lads are obviously taking heed.

They had risen to third in the Southern Premier on the back of an 11-game unbeaten league before Saturday’s defeat to Frome.

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