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Do you remember when footballers looked like how Rodney Fern looks here?

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Call it serendipity. Call it Mike Riley’s design. But the manager who gave Harry Maguire his league debut as an 18-year-old unknown happened to be at Old Trafford for his first start as the world’s most expensive defender.
Micky Adams was in the stands as a referee assessor for the Premier League, sent by referees’ chief Riley to play close attention to Anthony Taylor but naturally letting his vision scan to a player he first laid eyes on in 2011
 
Is this a known story? I've never heard it before.

How would anyone know for sure that they contracted flu whilst playing a game of football?
 
Is this a known story? I've never heard it before.

How would anyone know for sure that they contracted flu whilst playing a game of football?
Same story in the Who’s who section in Of Fossils & Foxes
 
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