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Heaven’s XI: The best players who have gone before us

PHILIP O’ROURKE PICKS HIS TOP SIDE FROM THE PLAYERS WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE US

Icon: Franz Beckenbauer playing for Bayern Munich

We all love football, and I believe most of us fans would love to think that, when the time comes for all of us, football awaits us in the afterlife.
So, with that thought, who would you like to see playing in the Theatre of Heaven? If you could choose a team of elite players to await you when you die, who would you hope would be on the team you support?
Assuming you would be supporting the home side, here is my Heaven’s XI, a team of superstars that have passed aw...

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