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While many football fans spend their summers refreshing Fabrizio Romano’s feed on Dying Social Media Disgrace Twitter, most non-league supporters have to get their transfer updates from the source. Supporters of National League South side Dover Athletic are in need of some good news – after deductions resulted in them demoted from the 2021-22 National League with a solitary point, they dodged a second straight relegation on the final day of the 2022-23 season with Dulwich Hamlet going down instead. Spirits were quickly lifted when Dover’s 28-year-old manager, Mitch Brundle, announced a deal for midfielder Ade Shokunbi early in June.
Not often one writes to Football Daily about something that is not a trite and pithy comment about an overpaid footballer. However, as someone who deals daily with the clinical mental anguish of a loved one, I was inspired by Dele Alli and his comments (yesterday’s Quote of the Day). Of course, his hand was forced by the fact some media organisation was about to expose him, which is, as we have seen just recently, nothing to do with decency. Yet, that makes him no less brave. And yes, I am sure plenty of people will say he has nothing to be sad about; he is playing football and making lots of money, so ‘just get over it’. I have met far too many of these idiots. Mental health is little understood by the majority of us, yet it is very real and has many sufferers. We need more brave souls in the public eye like Dele, because it helps and inspires the millions who suffer silently” – Paul Arnold.
What will it take for the owner(s) of a top English football club to wake up to the fact that a highly successful manager, someone with a far better record than some of the geniuses upon whom they have lavished shedloads of cash, hides in full view before them? I can name, at most, four of the current Premier League managers who might do a better job than Sarina Wiegman, if only someone had the nous to offer her a job” – Tim Healy.
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