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HERO RUSS IS STILL A SAVER

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The LeaguePaper Team
13 February 2022

Former Football League keeper to the rescue
By Dave Flett

OLD DAYS: Russ Howarth playing for York against Barnet in 1999 and, inset, one of the air ambulances on the scene
PICTURE: Alamy

VERY few footballers can claim to have swapped a career saving shots for one saving lives.
But it is a legitimate description of the rarely-trodden path former England under-20 international and fully-trained paramedic Russ Howarth has followed.
And the ex-Bradford, Tranmere and York goalkeeper has been lauded as “a life saver in very literal terms” by the player who suffered a fracture...

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