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Hi, my name's Tom LeMont, I'm a writer for the Guardian.

I wrote a story in 2018 called Dullich Hamlet,

the improbable tale of a tiny football club

that lost its home to developers and won it back.

These stories come from different places,

in this case, the editor on the Guardian Longory desk

at the time, Jonathan Shanein suggested I just take a closer look

at the story of this tiny club that had been simultaneously

at war with a property development company

and at the same time had been at war with 30 other teams

in its football division trying to get promoted.

I tend to try and think in terms of characters,

of people, of humans who stories I want to tell.

And when I started to see there were five or six really colorful people

involved in this tale of a small football club,

I started to think about maybe trying to tell it

from the perspective of each character one at a time.

I like that it sums up the fact that a football club

is never just one person, it's dozens and dozens

that make these places work.

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