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‘IF INTIMIDATING ISMAEL SHOUTS, HIS TROOPS WILL GET A MOVE ON!’

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The LeaguePaper Team
8 August 2021

GARRY THOMPSON ON THE BAGGIES’ NEW BEGINNING
By Nathan Jones

TAKING CONTROL: Valerien Ismael will attempt to repeat the success he had with Barnsley last term at West Brom
PICTURE: Alamy

‘Barnsley were brutally direct but Ismael said he only did that because of the players he had’
Garry Thompson
IN A 20-year career as a powerful, 6ft-tall centre-forward, Garry Thompson was never one to back away from a challenge on the pitch and he wasn’t shy in telling his own managers a few home truths on occasions either.
But even he admits he might think twice about ch...

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