PLAYING FOR KEEPS

JOHN LYONS talks to a young goalkeeper eager to climb the football ladder again after suffering the pain of rejection

WHEN Leigh Bedwell lined up for Didcot Town in the FA Cup first round against Exeter City last month, he could have been forgiven for thinking about what might have been.Less than two years ago he was a goalkeeper on the books of his boyhood favourites, Swindon Town. Now, instead of playing for a Football League club, he´s down in the muck and nettles of Non-League – but he’s not one to mope. The aim is to work his way back up to where he sta...

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