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A Valiant heart who could not resist call

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The LeaguePaper Team
31 December 2017

PROFILE ON NEIL ASPIN PORT VALE MANAGER

By Chris Dunlavy

A REAL FOOTBALL MAN: The highest accolade for Aspin
PICTURE: Action Images

ASK a young Leeds fans to name the darkest days in the club’s history and most will point to the post-Ridsdale wasteland.
Pose the same question of a more mature supporter, however, and you are likely to be regaled with tales of the bleak mid-1980s.
Back then, memories of greatness were still relatively fresh. It was, after all, just a decade since Don Revie’s brilliant bruisers had scythed to silverware and, in 1975, come within a crooked refere...

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