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SHRIMPS ARE SAFE THANKS TO BRILLIANCE OF BARRY

Heroic keeper ensures survival

Star Game
By John Wragg

ROAR DELIGHT: Morecambe players and, inset, manager Jim Bentley celebrate after the final whistle
PICTURE: Action Images

THE story that veteran Morecambe goalkeeper Barry Roche wrote kept everybody happy.
Eric Morecambe, born in the town, would have slapped Roche’s face with both hands, looked straight at the TV camera, and exclaimed, ‘This boy is no fool’ after this performance.
Roche, 36, and playing his 400th league game for Morecambe, kept his club in the Football League and in the process took Coventry in...

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