Cutting it fine

Groundsman, fundraiser, driver, cleaner...there’s more to life to managing a grassroots football team than meets the eye, as AIDAN TOWNSEND finds out

Pics: Johnston Press

Steve Toyne has plenty of reasons to feel a sense of relaxation as he exits the junction towards Phoenix Park, the home of Dinnington Town FC – a club in the middle of a former mining area in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.
The lights reflect from the passing signposts as the vehicle travels quickly along the uncongested A57, wipers jarring in unison as the rain plummets against the windscreen.
But the diff...

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