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Joy? Not if everyone has been battered…

Chris Dunlavy
A fresh take on football

■ MOMENTS before kick-off at Elland Road last weekend, I was joined in the gantry by an elderly chap with silver hair. He didn’t say much - just pulled up a rickety old chair purloined from some suite or other and proceeded to kick every ball, contest every decision and generally exhibit little of the impartiality customary in any press box.
I should have twigged then, but no. It was only later, after he’d cleared off for the day, that I realised the man sitting beside me for 90-odd minutes was Leeds legend Norman ‘bite ye...

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