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MILLION POUND MADNESS

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BOB PATEMAN LOOKS BACK TO THE DAYS WHEN TRANSFER FEES HIT AN ASTRONOMICAL NEW LEVEL

Magic moment: Trevor Francis heads Nottingham Forest’s winner against Malmo in the 1979 European Cup final and, inset, with the trophy

IN JANUARY 1979, West Bromwich Albion paid a British transfer record of £500,000 to bring David Mills from Middlesbrough. Just a few weeks later, the record fee doubled to the mind-blowing sum of one million pounds. Remember, at the time the average house was just £23,000 and a pint of beer was around 50p.
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