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‘PUSH FOR THE TOP SIX, OR CLEAR OFF, LADS!’

By Chris Dunlavy
BIG INTERVIEW: GRANT MCCANN

PLAYING DAYS: McCann represented Northern Ireland and earned promotion with Peterborough, right

GRANT McCann has hailed under-fire chairman Assem Allam for refusing to cash in on Hull City wing wizard Jarrod Bowen.
Bowen, 22, has netted 40 goals in 94 Championship starts for the Tigers and was linked with every- one from Arsenal to Spurs during the summer.
But despite several rounds of tentative talks and informal offers, nobody met Hull’s £15m valuation of a player who is under contract until 2021.
In the end, Bowen was t...

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