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WOODBURN’S DROP DOWN IS PERFECT MOVE

by
The LeaguePaper Team
4 August 2019

DEBUT GLORY: Ben Woodburn, centre, celebrates scoring for Wales against Trinidad and Tobago
PICTURE: PA Images

BEN Woodburn’s loan move from Liverpool to Oxford has raised a few eyebrows but people need to see the bigger picture.
For all his obvious talent, this is a 19-year-old lad who needs to lear n the game. Let’s leave him alone to do that.
The problem for Ben is the way he burst on to the scene – a goal on his Liverpool debut at 17 and a goal on his debut for Wales too.
I was at the Moldova match a few days later when he came on as a substitute and made the winner...

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