Paul Wade’s warning leaves Football Australia with nowhere to hide on heading
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- ▪It certainly wasn’t ball-playing,” said Busch, the chief executive of Professional Footballers Australia, which helped manage Wade’s announcement.“Having played in the UK for a couple of years, and the amount of time the ball spent in the a
- ▪This has been the cycle for the past five or six years.Paul Wade heads the ball in a match for South Melbourne against Marconi in Sydney in 1987.Ian CugleyBut this time, it’s different.
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