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‘ALAN MINTER WILL BE THERE’

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ALAN MINTER will be there.” Five words that could trigger all manner of feelings. It just depended on when in Minter’s life they were uttered.

In the late Sixties, if a young amateur heard those five words after asking who was going to be in the opposite corner, the emotion they stirred was one of fear. Back then Minter’s reputation was burgeoning fast. Naturally quiet outside the

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