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EASTWOOD: FATE WAS KIND TO ME

By Chris Dunlavy

LUCKY GUY: Simon Eastwood, challenged here by Scunthorpe’s Tom Hopper, is grateful to still be in the game. Inset left, Oxford boss Pep Clotet and, right, predecessor Michael Appleton
PICTURE: MI News & Sport

WHEN Simon Eastwood says he’s lucky to be a footballer, he isn’t just spouting mediafriendly platitudes.
Five years ago, the Oxford United goalkeeper, now 28, turned his back on FC Halifax Town and almost found himself on the dole.
“I’d been at Huddersfield as a kid, then spent a season on the bench at Oxford,” he explains. &l...

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