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Newport County midfielder Joss Labadie talks us through his football memories

First game you watched live?
My first ever match was at Highbury. it was Arsenal against Coventry and I was only six or seven, so it would have been about 1996. I went with my uncle and it was quite a boring game – it ended 0-0!
It wasn’t a great spectacle, but it was a great experience to go to Highbury as a young lad.
It was shortly after Arsene Wenger took over – I remember that Ian Wright was playing up front and he two-footed the Coventry keeper Steve Ogrizovic! It says something that was...

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