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According to Wikipedia:
Alan Woollett was a locally born defender who played for Leicester City during what many people used to believe to have been their golden era in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
(The 2016 Premiership victory and 2021 FA Cup win however revised that belief.)
Steady and committed he was a member of the losing 1969 FA Cup Final side and was eventually awarded a testimonial against Chelsea in 1977. In 2003 ex-Fox Steve Earle revealed that, unlike many players from that era, Woollett had never considered a move to the United States because he could not bear to be parted from his dog.
When it eventually died he was too distraught to travel with the squad for a game against Liverpool in May 1973. Manager Jimmy Bloomfield tried to get his team mates to show some respectful sympathy – a feat team mate Len Glover was singularly unable to manage.
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Perhaps the dog had the last laugh ? Alan served as a prison officer after retiring from football. Len Glover served time inside a prison as a convicted criminal.
He was sentenced to three and a half years for drug smuggling in 2004. (GH)
"Glover protested his innocence throughout his trial, claiming he was no more than a wheeler-dealing, Del-Boy-type character" BBC news.
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