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Owls slump? Blame it on Fletch absence

Chris Dunlavy a fresh take on football

ASK your average Championship punter to name the best striker in the division and the name of Steven Fletcher is unlikely to crop up.
Knackered. Ageing. Seven years past his Premier League peak. The Scot isn’t so much over the hill as approaching ground zero.
Yet if a player’s importance is most accurately measured by his absence, Fletcher is without peer or rival.
Initially robbed of their 12-goal top scorer by a minor hamstring issue in December, Sheffield Wednesday were rocked when Fletcher suffered a serious knee injury during an ...

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