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Set-piece specialist earns his rewards

SCOTT TWINE
BRISTOL CITY MIDFIELDER
By Chris Dunlavy

SCOTT Twine was a promising cricketer as a boy, but from the moment he saw Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo blast that legendary dipping free-kick beyond David James in the Portsmouth goal, his mind was made up.
Aged eight, and already playing two years above his age group, Twine decided that not only would he become a professional footballer, he’d be the best free-kick taker in the world.
Seventeen years on, the first objective has been firmly accomplished. And the second? Global data is sketchy, but he is ce...

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