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Former teen star is one in a million

By Chris Dunlavy
PROFILE ON TERRY MCPHILLIPS BLACKPOOL MANAGER

POINTING THE WAY: New Blackpool boss Terry McPhillips
PICTURE: PA Images

LIAM Watson still remembers the headline in the Liverpool Echo when his pal Terry McPhillips was released by the Reds in 1987.
‘They called him ‘The million pound striker that Kenny let go’,’ recalls the Southport boss. ‘That tells you how good he was back then.’
Watson knew that better than anybody. Born a year apart, the pair first met when McPhillips – then aged nine – moved to the Sefton area of Liverpo...

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