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374:(there are still suggestions that the game may have been fixed). Smith retired from the game at the age of 37 after 20 years in the Leicester team. He stayed on as a coach at Leicester, however after Johnny Duncan resigned a few weeks later, Smith's ties with the club were cruelly severed under Duncan's replacement
243:"an extraordinary footballer," saying "he could place the ball within an inch of a man's toe – that when he lobbed the ball to his winger the opposing full back felt the ball graze his hair as he tried to strain his neck that extra inch, like a drowning man trying to lift his head out of the water."
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who had been suffering from illness, but after a disappointing performance in which the local press described him as being "unable to pull his weight" he played no further part in that season. However, as he began to grow he began to show his poachers instinct, top scoring for the reserves the
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following season and earning himself a recall to the first team. In 1931–32 he scored 11 times in 22 matches though still as he began to cement his place in the first team.
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take the pass who constitutes the danger; and the aim is to have a man spare in a passing move. Soccer would then become easy."
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