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DAN’S DOING IT THE VARDY WAY!

By Paul Eddison

THE GRADUATE: Danny Newton scores for Stevenage, who plucked him from the V9 Academy
PICTURE: TGS Photo/Gavin Ellis

A TIRELESS striker scoring goals for fun in Non-League. Even before spending time at Jamie Vardy’s V9 Academy, Stevenage striker Danny Newton could not have imagined a more obvious blueprint to follow.
Unlike Vardy, who managed just four league goals in his first season with Leicester in the Championship, however, Newton has taken to the EFL like a duck to water.
He scored six goals in his first 11 games in League Two, to repay the faith shown in...

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