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A LEAGUE TWO LOVE AFFAIR

MAT GUY explains why lower league football can be a magical experience…

MAT GUY
OPINION
AS A young boy before the age of the internet, League Two, or Division Four as it was known then, was a mystery; a set of results read out a long way down the Saturday afternoon results service on Grandstand, a league table of obscure-sounding teams at the foot of the page in the Sunday paper. Obscure – yes, uninteresting, irrelevant – to a ten-year old boy, most definitely not.
Crewe Alexandra, Tranmere Rovers, Hartlepool United, Rochdale – in a world before Google, these teams ...

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