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Christmas will help to breed a new generation of wanna-be football managers and stasticians -KEITH MENARY remembers the more innocent times of comic-book heroes

WHILE the kids of today rush downstairs on Crimbo morning to rip the paper off their new laptops and iPads and spend the rest of the holiday season fretting over stats and tactical options for the likes of FIFA 13, it wasn’t that long ago gullible young folk were lured into a life of football servitude by a stream of comic strips which fired youthful imaginations and played up the fantasy aspect of the beautiful game.
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