JOHN WIGHT pays tribute to the day in history when Randolph Turpin dealt the world of boxing an almighty blow
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SATURDAY October 7 2000, we were all set for a big celebration in the Wembley stands to bid a fond farewell to those Twin Towers.
Then, in the 14th minute Germany’s, and Liverpool’s, Dietmar Hamann puts a soft free-kick past Seaman, England fail to respond and at the final whistle most of the crowd couldn’t get out of the place fast enough. Oh, and it rained.
What followed was one of the greatest ventures in English devolution, bar none. “England on the road,” as England internationals became a local fixture in Ipswich, Southampton, Leeds, Derby, Leicester and Middlesbrough.
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