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TURN BACK TIME Chapple echoes regional rethink

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
3 May 2020

NON-LEAGUE great Geoff Chapple insists football must bring back regionalisation to save the national game.
Chapple – a five-time FA Trophy winner with Woking and Kingstonian – echoed the calls of Havant & Waterlooville manager Paul Doswell for innovative thinking during the hiatus caused by coronavirus.
Like Doswell in last week’s NLP, Chapple believes Non-League’s top flight should be split into north and south divisions.
He said: “There’s never been a better time (to change football) than now. The people I’ve spoken to at the top level are all...

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