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John S - BBC Sport (U1816170)

member since: Wednesday 27 September 2006
Teams / sports followed:
Liverpool
Favourite player:
Xabi Alonso
Team played in:
Sporting Hackney
Favourite match:
Liverpool v AC Milan

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Colleagues call me Euro Jean or the Sinner. In terms of my football career I was very much a one-club man - the highlight of my Sporting Hackney career coming on a tour of France and winning the Paysac Trophy. I've also scored a goal at Goodison Park 's Gladwys Street End. There's video evidence, somewhere in my loft. Ignoring ex-Red Alan Kennedy's advice not to shoot, my effort miraculously ended up in the net.

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