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Mixing with the Beast, a Monk and Rooney…

Nige Tassell
JOURNEY THROUGH THE SECOND TIER IS UNFORGETTABLE

FOOTBALL AUTHOR

MAGIC MOMENT: Wycombe Wanderers’ Adebayo ‘The Beast’ Akinfenwa celebrates his last-gasp penalty winner against Bristol City in April
PICTURE: Alamy

AS IDEAS for a book go, it might not have been the wisest.
There was probably a more advisable time to step outside the house and spend the next nine months chronicling the soup-to-nuts unravelling of an entire Championship season. The world was still in the tight grip of a pandemic and the odds of the season being delayed, suspended or co...

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