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BALD EAGLE SOARED TO RARE PEAK

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The LeaguePaper Team
15 December 2019

Football world mourns loss of Jim Smith

By Tom Blackett

PARTY TIME: Derby boss Jim Smith celebrates promotion with Igor Stimac in 1996 and, Inset, with Harry Redknapp
PICTURE: PA Images

LEADING football fi gures have paid tribute to Jim Smith, the man affectionately known throughout the game as ‘the Bald Eagle’.
Smith died at the age of 79 on Tuesday, but will be fondly remembered at a host of clubs following more than half a century of service to the game as a player and manager.
His playing days took in spells at Sheffield United, Aldershot, Halifax, Lincoln, Boston and ...

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