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Rejection? It’s got to make you stronger…

Graham Westley
IT’S been a long and lonely footballing summer for me. For a third successive year, I have felt like a sun with no sky to shine in. There is nothing quite like a good pre-season, during which you can prepare a squad for the long journey ahead on all the levels: technically, tactically, teamwise, physically, personally, professionally, mentally and culturally.
It is a very complex puzzle and six long pre-season weeks create a good platform without which you can only really play catch up.
In my last pre-season in 2014-15, Stevenage reached the League Two play-offs.
My man...

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