In this episode of the Your Harrogate podcast, Pete Egerton speaks to Mike Bligh from Knaresborough Town women and Harrogate Town manager, Simon Weaver. Knaresborough Town women celebrated promotion last Sunday (12th March), but now want to finish the job and go up as champions. Mike tells Pete what has impressed him most so far and whether or not the mother of all parties will go ahead... Meanwhile, Simon Weaver has been reflecting on an awful performance at Crawley last Saturday (11th March) and wants his players not only to step up in training, but to take that improvement into matches, starting with Barrow this weekend (18th March) The gaffer also gives his thoughts on statistics suggesting more and more footballers develop dementia later in life, potentially as a result of heading the ball too much... [podcast_episode episode="57364" content="excerpt,player"]

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