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BARRY BIDS TO KEEP ON SAVING

By Joe Leavey
BARRY Roche knows that, when you get to a certain age in football, the dinosaur jokes are inevitable, but he has no plans to allow his career to become extinct just yet.
The 37-year-old Morecambe keeper is knee-deep in his 20th season as a professional, over 600 appearances under his belt and a glorious, solitary goal – against Portsmouth in February 2016.
Times have changed since the Dubliner’s debut for Nottingham Forest as an 18-yearold back in August 2000 – a 3-2 win over Crystal Palace in which he replaced the dismissed Dave Beasant on 89 minutes, before...

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