In keeping with a number of well-known managers to make their names in the non-league game, Gary Johnson never kicked a ball in anger in the Football League. Despite spells with Watford, Malmo, Brentford and Northampton, he failed to make a single first-class appearance. Perhaps it was destiny which led him to turn to coaching as the next-best thing.
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