New lawnmower and fresh thinking – Paterson on Notts promotion
Notts County boss Martin Paterson wasted no time in identifying his first summer transfer target after guiding the Magpies to League One for the first time in 11 years. It was after Notts overcame Chesterfield in their play-off semi-final that the 38-year-old said he would begin preparations for their final showdown with Salford City at Wembley by "chopping stuff down" in his garden while listening to country music. "We have achieved something now and I'll be making lots of comments to the owners about buying me a new lawnmower and I hope they do," Paterson said with a grin during his post-match press conference.
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Now the curtain has come down on the 2025-26 Premier League campaign, here is my end-of-season review - with a look back to what I predicted in August. Wolves were another side effectively going out of the Premier League from the early weeks of the season. Vitor Pereira was sacked after failing to win any of the first 10 league games and, while successor Rob Edwards occasionally hinted at better things to come and some optimism next season, this was a miserable campaign.
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