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Game is far better with the maverick

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The LeaguePaper Team
11 October 2026

Chris Dunlavy
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

WHO was your favourite player as a kid? Who did you pretend to be in the playground, down the park or in the back lane?
I had a few. Chris Waddle. Georgi Kinkladze. Matt Le Tissier. My heart belonged to the maverick and the virtuoso - the dribblers and dancers and makers of magic moments.
I can still picture Waddle during his Sheffield Wednesday swansong, tormenting a young Ryan Giggs with his trademark chops and shoulder dips.
Still hear Jon Champion hailing “mesmeric” Kinkladze as the Man City winger slalomed past four Southamp...

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