Chris Dunlavy

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CHRIS DUNLAVY: Game has to mind the gap

“If anyone knows the effects of prune juice, it’s very simple,” explained the Apprentice star and former owner of Tottenham. “It goes in one end and comes straight out the other, and that’s exactly what’s going to happen to this money.”

RESPECT HAS TO BE EARNED

Chris DUNLAVY IT’S tournament time and England are involved so, inevitably, we’re all hearing some old favourites. Sweet Caroline. Three […]

GO BACK TO BEING DULL!

Chris DUNLAVY A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL ROVER ‘N’ OUT: Forest Green Rovers are back in the National League after […]

CHRIS DUNLAVY: Look how far we have come

Severa; years ago, whilst living in Oxford, I invited a couple of friends to watch the mighty U’s in action.

Chris Wilder was in charge at the time and promotion to the Football League was finally on the horizon. James Constable was scoring for fun.

CHRIS DUNLAVY: Grigg’s his own man in the box

Will Grigg spoke last week of being inspired to join Chesterfield after watching Welcome to Wrexham.

Yet Paul Mullin, one of the documentary’s standout performers both on and off the pitch, has set the 32-year-old an intimidatingly high bar.

CHRIS DUNLAVY: We go our own way!

STEVE Morison, the new and thoroughly unexpected manager of Hornchurch, bristled when I asked how he’d cope with coaching players of a lesser standard than the Cardiff City stars he’d recently guided to Championship safety.

CHRIS DUNLAVY: It’s time for a cap on owners

When the EFL announced strict new rules aimed at preventing clubs falling into the wrong hands, it begged an obvious question.  Can the National League look forward to a future where it is not forced to reanimate the lifeless corpses of once proud sides?