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Powell’s rare talent is finally being fulfilled

AND HE’S PUTTING IN A SHIFT

Gregor Robertson

FORMER FOOTBALLER TURNED JOURNALIST
ON THE day I signed for Crewe Alexandra in the summer of 2012, their Reaseheath training ground was bristling with pride.
A few days earlier, academy graduate Nick Powell, fresh from securing Crewe’s promotion to League One with that spectacular strike in the League Two play-off final at Wembley, had left for Manchester United for a fee of £6m.
I remember Neil Baker, Crewe’s long-standing coach, saying “He’ll play for England,” as though it were a statement of fact. ...

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