Recalled Dover defender Chevron McLean felt he had a point to prove in their weekend home draw against Chippenham - but conceded manager Mitch Brundle had been right to drop him!
McLean, formerly of Kingstonian, Cheshunt and Cray Wanderers, returned for Saturday’s 1-1 draw after being left out of the Whites squad which lost 2-0 at Dartford five days earlier.
Honest McLean said: “Every player wants to play every game. But in my opinion, I don’t think I deserved to play that [Dartford] game. “I don’t think I’d played well in the two games before that.
I’ve got the utmost respect for the gaffer. “He’s honest with me, he’s real with me, and I think I needed to sit out that game to sit down and get the fire back in my belly.” It’s fair to say many other footballers would not have taken such news as well as McLean did.