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Generous leader Doug was top guy

Generous leader Doug was top guy

ISTILL remember my first conversation with Doug Loft, who tragically died this week at the age of 39.
Like a lot of players, I’m superstitious about squad numbers. At the start of my career, I always liked to wear 19. But when I came back to Brighton, then in League One, in 2008, I decided I’d like to try 23, which was my dad’s lucky number.
When I told the manager, Micky Adams, he said to me ‘I’m afraid Doug Loft wears that at the moment - you’ll have to ask him’.
So my first conversation with him was ‘Hello mate, nice to meet...

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