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‘GRANDAD’ HAS STILL GOT LOTS TO OFFER

By Chris Dunlavy
BIG INTERVIEW: LUKE VARNEY

STILL FIRING: Burton Albion’s Luke Varney shoots at goal
PICTURE: Action Images

LUKE Varney vividly remembers his first day at Charlton Athletic. Not that he was ever likely to forget it.
Training with household names. Impressing gaffer Alan Pardew. Dreaming of a firstever game in the Championship. And then?
“I got back to the dressing room and Ben Thatcher… well, he’d basically gone to the toilet on my brand new washbag,” laughs Varney. “It was some initiation.”
That was a decade ago, and it is testam...

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