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“It’s obviously a massive tradition up in the North East. My great, great grandad had the rights on the Newcastle Brown Ale bottle. The rights used to be Dowson Beer all over the North East. He sold all the rights, so I could have been a multi-millionaire myself now! “He had a personality about him where you looked at him in awe a little bit, because he’s such a gentleman. After the game, he came straight into the office for a drink and he stayed there for a good hour and chatted away. He said: ‘If you want to come down for pre-season, come down.’“So, the following summer, we went down and had a pre-season game behind closed doors and he got us something to eat. He made Troy Deeney give away a top, so we could raffle the top off.
“When I was at Woking, the following season when the pandemic came, we were trying to raise money by getting names on the shirts and you had to pay £200 to buy a shirt and get your name on the shirt.“I sent him a text and he done a little piece on it for our website and he actually brought a shirt himself and put his name on it and that shows the class of the man.
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