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For Mason-Clark, 26, things got under way in the seventh tier in 2016 with a brief loan spell in the Isthmian League Premier Division at Metropolitan Police, one month after making his Barnet debut in League Two.<\/p>\n
He would go on to play for the Bees for six years, predominantly in the National League, before joining Peterborough United in League One in 2022 and then Coventry in 2024.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got a running joke,” Thomas-Asante said. “We say we’ve got our jumpers at home – anyone who’s played National League will know as everyone wears the same jacket before a game.<\/p>\n
“So I kept that because I never want to forget the tough times. But I also don’t want to downplay the National League because as we saw with York and Rochdale, the standard is unreal.<\/p>\n
“It gets downplayed and it’s not a joke, so to see that, see League Two, League One, the Championship and, god-willing, soon the Premier League is special.”<\/p>\n
Given the similar path both Thomas-Asante and Mason-Clark have trodden, it was perhaps somewhat poetic that they both found the net in the final home game of the campaign for Coventry.<\/p>\n
They also combined for the opener on that day of celebration with Mason-Clark setting up Thomas-Asante, who was waxing lyrical about his team-mate afterwards.<\/p>\n
“I’m a fan of football before I’m a player and the player he has become, he is just unreal,” Thomas-Asante said.<\/p>\n
“Even to watch from the other side of the pitch, I had to remember to get in at the back stick.<\/p>\n
“He always adds to his game, he’s just becoming inevitable. No one can really stop him.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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