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Football Firsts with Alex Revell

Alex Revell – The Stevenage coach talks us through his football memories…

First game you watched live?
I grew up as a Cambridge fan, in the days of John Beck. It was a proper team -Dion Dublin, Gary Rowett, Steve Claridge, all those guys. The first game I went to was at home to Manchester United in the League Cup, in the days when they used to have a fence up in the away end. I must have been six or seven. I was part of a young supporters’ club called Cambridge Juniors and we all used to go along to games. They were great times, and that Cambridge team very nearly got to the Premier Leagu...

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