Chris Dunlavy

Treat the process with a pinch of salt

by
The LeaguePaper Team
3 September 2023

Chris Dunlavy
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

Earlier this week, a friend of mine attended a National League fixture which he described as the worst game of football he’d ever paid to see. Sorry, but I’m not naming names.
The problem, he suggested, was that both managers had instructed their team to build from the back, despite neither possessing defenders with the requisite technical ability.
Wayward passes and panicked touches quickly took precedence, eliminating any possibility of the jog a bonito that was, presumably, the objective. A “f***ing mess” was how he phrased it, though the afterno...

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