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‘THIS HAS EASED LAST SEASON’S PAIN AND IT’S SO EMOTIONAL’

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The LeaguePaper Team
9 May 2021

By Chris Dunlavy

FEELING BUBBLY: A jubilant Sammie Szmodics savours Peterborough’s promotion last weekend and, Insets, the challenge on him by Lincoln’s Anthony Scully that led to Posh’s last-gasp penalty, below, and Jonson Clarke-Harris celebrates putting away the spot-kick to clinch promotion, right
PICTURE: Alamy

SAMMIE Szmodics has taken a lot of stick for someone who’s just won promotion to the Championship.
“I’ve had some abuse, that’s for sure,” says the Peterborough United midfielder, whose controversial tumble to win a 96th-m...

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