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JUSTIN WILL BE FIRST OF MANY…

FOUR games in and already we have had our first managerial casualty of the season with Northampton Town sacking Justin Edinburgh.
The Cobblers are bottom of League One and are one of just two sides in the entire EFL yet to register a point.
Chairman Kelvin Thomas is a good, honest man and I know he will not have made that decision lightly.
But what all of us managers know is that Justin is only the first of about 30 who will suffer the same fate before we see Christmas Day!
Justin will have a break and go again. As a fellow manager who knows how tough it is to be out of work, I wish him goo...

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