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OSBORN ‘READY TO TAKE TWITTER ABUSE’

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The LeaguePaper Team
15 October 2017

CHAMPIONSHIP
By Dan Barnes

SWITCH: Ben Osborn

THERE was a time when Ben Osborn stood shoulder to shoulder with Derby County supporters, but this afternoon he hopes to become public enemy No.1 at Pride Park.
The 23-year-old’s first professional goal for Nottingham Forest was an injury-time winner against his team’s bitter rivals in January 2015.
Ironically, Derby are Osborn’s home town club and he was a Rams supporter at an early age. But, after a year with their academy, he joined Forest as a nine-year-old and has been at the club ever since.
With the two teams set to m...

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