Friday's Local Hero Richard Winton Meets the Manager Still Hungry After 25 Years at Helm
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NOVEMBER 1984. Ronald Reagan was re-elected as President of the United States, Band Aid was formed in response to the famine in Ethiopia, Stevie Wonder was just calling to say he loved you and Aberdeen were on their way to becoming the last team from outside Glasgow to win the Premier Division.
Forty miles up the north-east coast, something even more momentous was happening in the town of Fraserburgh. Charlie Duncan was scribbling his signature on a two-week contract to become interim manager of the town's Highland League team on the understanding that if he didn't enjoy it, he would walk away. It must been some fortnight.See the full content of this document
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Friday's Local Hero Richard Winton Meets the Manager Still Hungry After 25 Years at Helm
"Aye, it was a long-term deal for two weeks, " he says. "But nothing has been said since about signing another one, so really I'm working game by game."
Duncan's attention, then, is focused solely on his 1004th...See the full content of this document
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