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From Non-League, Charlie Austin has built a brilliant career

Jamie Vardy is probably the greatest Non-League product of all time, but Charlie Austin is right up there.

From Non-League,

Jamie Vardy is probably the greatest Non-League product of all time, but Charlie Austin is right up there.
Released by Swindon this week, the 34-year-old was working as a bricklayer whilst playing part-time for Poole in the ninth-tier Wessex League when he was first spotted by the Robins in 2009.
He has gone on to score 228 goals - 30 of them in the Premier League - and in 2015 came within a whisker of international honours when he was called up to the England squad for a double-header against the Republic of Ireland and Slovenia.
Unlike Vardy, who won his first cap in Dublin, Austin never ...

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