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Kev’s still on the ball at 43

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The LeaguePaper Team
21 August 2022

By Matt Badcock

ONE TO WATCH: Former Newport County ace Kevin Ellison has signed for Warrington Rylands in Non-League, below
PICTURES: Alamy

Before heading off on a 21-year Football League career, Kevin Ellison learnt the ins and outs of the game from a Non-League legend: Mark ‘Mad Dog’ Maddox.
“He was a Non-League hard knock at the time,” Ellison, the former Tranmere, Chester City, Rotherham, and Newport County winger, tells The FLP. “They used to say he’d tackle his nan! He was that type of centre-half. He wore his heart on his sleeve. At Altrincham he did everything and is an absolu...

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