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STRAIGHT TALK GETS TO HEART OF GAME

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The LeaguePaper Team
23 December 2022

Danny Wilson – IGet Knocked Down But I Get Up Again, by Danny Wilson and Mathew Mann, Published by Morgan Lawrence Publishing Services Limited, Price: £15
IF DANNY Wilson’s career isn’t worth an autobiography, then whose is?
For 40-odd years as first a player and then a manager, Wilson was wrapped up in English football.
The stats on their own are impressive. As a tigerish midfielder, Wilson notched up over 800 career appearances and more than a century of goals. Plenty of strikers would love to have that tally.
Then it was on to management – and ov...

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