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LEEDS FAITHFUL DID ME PROUD

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The LeaguePaper Team
19 November 2017

CRUNCH: Jonny Howson gets stuck in against Brentford

IT is six years since Jonny Howson left Leeds United, the club he’d supported from childhood and represented 225 times.
“I remember everything,” he says. “My first g ame, my first goal. People talk to me about things that happened there and it’s a shock when you realise it was seven, eight years ago. It honestly feels like two minutes!
“When you’re coming through as a young lad, all the old pros say ‘make the most of this because it’ll soon be gone’.
You think ‘Yeah, yea...

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