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Why Wilder and pal Knill are step ahead

DOUBLE ACT: Manager Chris Wilder, right, and assistant Alan Knill in their Northampton days Inset: Gregor Robertson celebrates
PICTURE: Action Images

I’D been without a club for almost a fortnight when Chris Wilder picked up the phone in January 2014. The offer was a deal until the end of the season at Northampton, the club he’d just joined as manager and 92nd in the Football League.
It was on half the money I’d been earning at my last club, Crewe. Come and help us stay up, he said, and earn a better deal.
I wasn’t the only player he said that to, of course. He kn...

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