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Bristol Rovers striker Brett Pitman talks us through his football memories

by
The LeaguePaper Team
10 April 2022

football firsts

First game you watched live?
Southampton against Everton. Actually, no – that was the second one. The first one I watched was Wimbledon against Aston Villa in the Premier League.
I played for Jersey schoolboys and we went to the game during some kind of tour to England. I don’t think it was Plough Lane – it must have been when they were playing at Selhurst Park.
It was the late 90s some time. The only thing I can really remember is that Marcus Gayle played.
First football hero?
I loved David Beckham when I was a kid. Growing up in Jersey, you got people supporting all sor...

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