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‘I WAS LUCKY TO GET IN BUT NOW I MUST GRAB CHANCE’

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The LeaguePaper Team
4 April 2021

By Chris Dunlavy

SUPER STOPPER: Cardiff keeper Dillon Phillips saves his second penalty in the 4-0 win against Preston and, insets, celebrating promotion with Charlton, top, and Cheltenham
PICTURE: Alamy

SOME players grind their way into a manager’s thoughts. Some command a place by virtue of talent or transfer fee.
For Dillon Phillips, it was sheer, blind luck that landed him a place between the sticks for Cardiff City – but, boy, has the 25-year-old capitalised on his slice of fortune.
Signed from Charlton Athletic, where he won the club’s player of the year awar...

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