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Gap’s closing from EFL to Non-League

Chris Hargreaves

FORMER EFL MIDFIELDER

TOUGH DAY: Cheltenham’s Liam Sercombe

battles with Alvechurch’s Tyrell Skeen-Hamilton in their cup defeat last week and, Inset, King’s Lynn celebrate at Doncaster
PICTURE: Alamy & Ian Burt

WE’VE seen some excellent cup-ties over the past week and it’s again underlined the strength of football in this country.
Having recently been in charge of National League Yeovil, I’ve seen first-hand how strong our football is below the top 92.
That’s why some of the ‘shocks’ we saw last week probably didn’t come as a great surprise to me. Indeed, my son C...

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