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LEDLEY: MY MAGICAL BEARD IS FOR KEEPS!

by
The LeaguePaper Team
10 December 2017

It worked for Wales, but can it help propel Derby into big time?

EXCLUSIVE
By John Wragg

JOE Ledley has been growing his beard for almost as long as Derby have been trying to escape from the Championship.

GOING FOR GOAL: Ledley takes aim for his new club, Derby

Four months after QPR beat Derby 1-0 in the last minute of the 2014 Championship play-off final, Ledley decided he needed to do something to help Wales.
“We had about four points out of six at the start of the Euro 2016 qualifying and I’d started growing the beard,” he says.
“I remember saying to one of ...

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