Chris Dunlavy: This is Phil Parkinson’s big chance

Chris DUNLAVY
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

FINALLY PARKY HAS BACKING
SINCE their second – and last – competitive meeting in 2014, Johnsons Gary and Lee have faced off just once as opposing managers.
On a warm evening in 2016, Lee’s Bristol City defeated dad Gary’s Cheltenham Town in a friendly, winning the Johnson Cup in the process.
The trophy – a silver cup commissioned in jest by Gary himself – still sits on the younger man’s mantelpiece. A “bit cringe” was how he described the dubious honour.
Given that Lee now manages League One giants Sunderland while his old man is at Torquay United, an...

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