During five years on Newcastle’s payroll Andy Woodman’s apparently endless supply of jokes prompted plenty of training ground laughter but club insiders knew better than to underestimate their goalkeeping coach.
That judgement was vindicated as, a decade after leaving Tyneside, Woodman returned as Bromley’s manager. Ultimately the team currently 12th in League Two could not prevent their hosts from recording an eighth straight victory in all competitions but, for quite a while, Woodman’s meticulously organised players frustrated Eddie Howe’s Premier League high-flyers.
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