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LIAM LEADS AN OLYMPIC RISE!
The Non-League Football Paper
|May 07, 2023
LIAM McDonald is so glad he stuck around to make a big noise in this little suburb of Walsall - even if he is unsure about what comes next
Five-and-a-half years after taking over a Rushall Olympic side toiling at the wrong end of Step 3, the former Solihull Moors boss presided over history by toppling traditional giants Nuneaton Borough on penalties in Monday's Southern Premier Central play-off final.
It is not the first time he has defied the odds, keeping Moors afloat in the National League in 2017 before exiting the October after.
Within weeks he had been lured back into the game by Pics chairman John Allen with progress resulting in admiring glances from elsewhere but Monday's magic left McDonald in no doubt that he had made the right call.
This story is from the May 07, 2023 edition of The Non-League Football Paper.
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