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Football Firsts with Graham Fenton

by
The LeaguePaper Team
4 September 2022

Graham Fenton, the ex-Villa and Blackburn striker, talks us through his football memories

First game you watched live? My dad took me to see Newcastle at St James’ for a game against Fulham in 1982. We got beat 4-1.
The thing I remember about it was that Malcolm Macdonald was manager of Fulham, so it was almost like his welcome home party. Kevin Keegan and Terry McDermott played, as did one of my future teammates at Aston Villa funnily enough - avery young Ray Houghton, who was brilliant.
That was my first game but I didn’t actually start going regularly until I was about 11 or 12, when G...

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