Chris Dunlavy
NOT so long ago, facing a club from Step 3 was a complete mystery to an EFL or Premier League side.
Such was the scarcity of available data or video, they may as well have been playing a team from Senegal or South Korea.
When Chasetown welcomed Cardiff to the Scholars Ground in 2008, Bluebirds manager Dave Jones freely admitted that he didn’t know a great deal about Charlie Blakemore’s side.
Fortunately for him, Cardiff had a 17-year-old by the name of Aaron Ramsey making his first professional start, and the teenager ran riot in a 3-1 win.
These days, though, the element of s...
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