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O’s slide will go on if Becchetti stays…

Chris Dunlavy

THE National League – or the Conference in old money – has long been football’s equivalent of The Priory.
A last refuge where famous names go to rehabilitate after rock bottom has been reached. A place to expel demons and start from scratch.
Luton Town, Oxford United, Bristol Rovers: all were forced to pull up a seat in the rec room, raise their hand and admit: ‘I am a failing club’.
All of them swallowed their medicine – the pitiful sponsorship, the trips to Barrow and North Ferriby, the fury of frustrated fans. All eventually emerged he...

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