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Midfielder’s carving out a new career

By Charlie Peat

SUITED AND BOOTED: David Prutton at Leeds and, inset, in the Sky TV studio
PICTURE: Action Images

THE fear of hanging up your boots and stepping out into the big wide world is something that grips almost every professional footballer and, for David Prutton, that trepidation was no different.
Luckily, he had a plan. Following half a season on loan at Coventry from Sheffield Wednesday in 2014, the former Nottingham Forest, Southampton and Leeds midfielder decided to retire, a decision no-one takes lightly.
But it was the next s...

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