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Mixing with veterans can aid young guns

Guy Branston

FORMER FOOTBALL LEAGUE DEFENDER AND LEICESTER CITY LOANS MANAGER
I MADE my reserve team debut for Leicester City shortly after I turned 17. I was young, naive, straight out of the youth team.
Suddenly I was playing alongside - and against - some big internationals. It was the Pontins League, and a big deal. Every Monday night you’d get crowds of three or four thousand people.
I remember playing against Middlesbrough during the Bryan Robson era when he was signing people like Fabrizio Ravanelli and Juninho. Branco played, maybe Emerson. There were so many people there, an...

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