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SUPER HOOPER IS ‘CLASS ACT’ IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP

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The LeaguePaper Team
17 September 2017

WHEN Gary Hooper left Celtic to join Norwich in 2013, the striker’s aim was to win a place in England’s World Cup squad.
It never happened and, if we’re honest, it never will. At 29, the Sheffield Wednesday ace is about as likely to play for England as Billy the Fish.
Nevertheless, Hooper is a class act at Championship level and easily one of the division’s most underrated strikers.
Forget goals, though 23 in 66 games is hardly shoddy. Hooper’s real value to the Owls is movement, awareness and, like Teddy Sheringham, that instinctive ability to oil a forward li...

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