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JACQUI OATLEY

What was the first game that you ever attended?

Wolves 1-1 Bristol Rovers in September 1990 – Robbie Dennison scored for us. I’d become obsessed with football and Wolves the year before, but it wasn’t until I changed schools that I actually had some people to go with. Molineux was a bit run-down and had a couple of condemned stands back then, so the atmosphere wasn’t the best, but I was in the South Bank and I loved it.

Do you have a matchday routine?

When I used to go as a fan, I had this strange superstition that I had to do 20 keepie-uppies in

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