FAST START VITAL FOR MAC’S YORK

LEAMINGTON. Spennymoor Town. Blyth Spartans. A couple of years ago, fixtures against such sides would have represented a kindly FA Cup draw for York City.
Now, somehow, they are equals. A top-ten budget couldn’t kee p them out of the National League. A top-three budget couldn’t keep them in it.
It beggars belief that Burton Albion, League Two play-off rivals in May 2014, are now four divisions distant.
That, perhaps, is the starkest illustration of the catastrophic blunder made by owner Jason McGill when he handed the managerial reins to Jackie McNamara in late 2015.
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