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DANNY WAS LEFT GAGA BY YAYA!

By Paul Martin

GOOD SHOUT: Danny Johnson celebrates scoring the O’s winner at Oldham and, inset, Yaya Toure
PICTURE: Simon O’Connor

WHEN Yaya Toure turned up to train with Leyton Orient over the summer, Danny Johnson couldn’t help but reflect on their contrasting paths in the game – once he had stopped pinching himself.
After all, as the in-form O’s frontman puts it: “When he was winning Champions Leagues and Premier Leagues, I was doing 12-hour shifts in a factory and playing Non-League for £50 a week.
“To wind forward a few years and b...

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