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JACK THE LAD HAS BECOME JACK THE LEADER

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The LeaguePaper Team
14 April 2019

SKIPPER: Jack Grealish

JACK Grealish, captain of Aston Villa. It would have seemed a ludicrous notion even 12 months ago.
Yet in handing the 23-year-old the armband, Dean Smith has seemingly enforced on Grealish a maturity that he so often lacked.
Ever since his spectacular emergence in 2015, the playmaker was known to opponents as ten stone of talented TNT.
Kick him enough and you’d eventually find the detonator.
Many a wily defender has successfully niggled Grealish into a running battle. Many a crowd has jeered him to distraction.
Villa fans are well accustomed to the sight of G...

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