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The Guardian - UK
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Rob Smyth

Total Football is dead, long live Total Woutball

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Big Wout gets into line alongside Cody Gakpo (left) and Tyrell Malacia (right) on Louis van Gaal’s big ride to the Premier League.
Big Wout gets into line alongside Cody Gakpo (left) and Tyrell Malacia (right) on Louis van Gaal’s big ride to the Premier League. Photograph: Gerrit van Keulen/ANP/AFP/Getty Images

HOLD THE IGHALOMETER

Any centre-half who played in England in the 1980s will tell you that the real meaning of hell is spending 90 minutes in the company of the journeyman striker Billy Whitehurst. A somewhat limited technician and unsentimental soul who was once described as looking like “Frankenstein’s monster”, by himself, Whitehurst has a case for being the most terrifying footballer ever to roam the green. Legend has it he once offered out the entire Crystal Palace team and kept himself busy away from football by partaking in bare-knuckle boxing.

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