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Leader Aden has got that extra bit of class

Graham Westley
At every rung of the football ladder, there are players who just look ‘too good for the level’.
Aden Flint contributed to Sheffield Wednesday’s promotion into the Championship last season. So it is no real surprise that months later, now at 34 years of age, I watched his 6ft 6ins frame look imperious as his Mansfield Town side recently crushed Accrington in League Two.
One player really can spread a considerable difference into a team and then into a game - that’s exactly what he did.
Flint leads his back line with real authority. His judgement of when to squeeze the game, whe...

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