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CANCER-HIT SOL IS A CLASS ACT IN ANYONE’S LANGUAGE…

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BEST wishes to Sol Bamba, the Cardiff defender who announced this week that he is being treated for cancer.
I first spoke to Bamba ten years ago, shortly after he joined Leicester from Hibernian, and was surprised to hear a broad Scottish accent coming out of the Parisian’s mouth.
I shouldn’t have been. The Ivory Coast international speaks five languages and is one of those infuriatingly intelligent people who can gracefully assimilate any culture or social dynamic.
That is why he has been made captain of so many clubs in so many countries, and has often acted as the glue that w...

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