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‘PROUD’ OLLIE OFF TO DREAM START

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The LeaguePaper Team
5 January 2020

By John Lomas
NEW GRIMSBY manager Ian Holloway celebrated winning his fi rst game back after a long exile from football, thanks to an own goal from Mal Benning that earned a gutsy victory with ten men at fellow strugglers Mansfi eld Town.
That came after having Luke Waterfall sent off as early as the tenth minute.
But afterwards he said: “I want to apologise to the Mansfield fans as I think I over-celebrated.
“I have been out the game for 18 months, I felt I lost my job unfairly, I lost my mum a week later, too.
“So I do apologise. A lot of them clapped us off and were ...

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