BOSTON UNITED’S LONG ROAD BACK TO THE TOP TABLE
By CHRIS DUNLAVY
IT is seventeen years since David Newton walked into a public meeting at York Street and answered the prayers of a dying football club.
Boston United had just crashed out of the Football League with debts of £3.5m and were teetering on the brink of liquidation.
Sympathy, however, was in short supply. Shortly after winning promotion to the EFL in 2002, Boston were found guilty of falsifying salary details on player contracts lodged with the FA.
Owner Pat Malkinson and manager Steve Evans received bans (and eventually crimin...
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