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BARRY’S IN THE ELITE 500 CLUB

League career began with penalty stop

By Dan Barnes

GOING STRONG: Morecambe goalkeeper Barry Roche

Starting out with Nottingham Forest
PICTURE: Simon Davies

WITH 89 minutes on the clock, Barry Roche left the bench to replace veteran Dave Beasant, who had been sent off for chopping down Fan Zhiyi as he shaped to score.
Facing off against Julian Gray from 12 yards, he was powerless to prevent the Crystal Palace striker scoring neatly into the corner of the net but, after the spot-kick was ordered to be retaken for encroachment, the debutant goalkeeper guessed correctly and sealed a dram...

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