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Unsung U’s bid to have last laugh

Digby & Co out to confound ‘experts’ again
By John Lyons

DIGGING IN: U’s captain Paul Digby, right, tussles with Southampton’s Stuart Armstrong in the Carabao Cup last month
PICTURES: Alamy

Cambridge United are written off before every season, but skipper Paul Digby and his team-mates love taking the opportunity to prove the doubters wrong.
Pre-weekend, Mark Bonner’s U’s lay sixth in the table, mixing it with the likes of heavyweights Ipswich, Portsmouth, Sheffield Wednesday and Bolton.
It might have come as a surprise to those outside the Abbey Stadium, but Digby and Co. just take...

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