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FEATURES
54 Graeme Souness: hard as nails
Liverpool’s Champagne Charlie
reflects on his glittering career
62 Peter Beardsley’s chicken wrap
Bob Mortimer and Andy Dawson
on their podcast Athletico Mince
66 Heeeeeeeeere’s Rodri!!!
The Man City new boy’s early life
72 “It’s happy hour at the SU bar”
FFT hits the Europa League road
with the students of Cardiff Met
78 Football’s best illustrators
A showcase of top artists’ workFEATURES
90 Shamrock Rovers’ return
Why Irish eyes are smiling again
96 Doncaster: Worst. Season. Ever.
Rovers’ 1997-98 annus horribilis
114 Scott Sinclair’s Perfect XITHE PLAYERS LOUNGE
102 Benni McCarthy: “Locals want
to punch me in La Coruna”
104 Gus Poyet’s journey to Hell
105 Faye White’s trip to McDonald’s
106 John de Wolf on life at Molineux18 96
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HOW CHERNOBYL
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