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What happened to the likely lads?

SCOTT TERRIO mourns the passing of the out-and-out winger, a player that seems to have been sacrificed to the modern football gods of tracking back and ‘keeping it tight’

The winger. The pacey, high-flying trickster. It’s the position kids dream about, bombing down the touchline, all stepovers and shoulder-drops, then ghosting past a hapless fullback. Cutting in for a drive on net or crossing to your big number nine’s forehead in the box.
What 10-year-old fantasises of being a holding midfielder, a tenacious left back or a nononsense centre-half? The winger fire...

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