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Things couldn’t have been much worse.
The manager had just walked and most of the squad had followed him out the door.
Leatherhead FC’s entire season had collapsed on a single afternoon, as they suffered the heartbreak of narrowly missing out on the play-offs of the Bostik Premier Division, their final route out of sixth tier of England’s football pyramid.
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Meanwhile, an admin error had brought a fine of around a third of their season’s budget, which was already one of the lowest in the division.