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PLAYING FOR PENALTIES Real Salt Lake had zero shots to Seattle’s 21 during 120 minutes of action – but then won the play-off clash after a shootout

What was the first match that you ever saw live?

Tranmere Rovers vs Accrington Stanley in the Fourth Division – it would have been about the early ’60s. I was taken by a neighbour of my grandmother on my father’s side – he was a Tranmere fan like my grandfather, Pat McManus. Rovers used to play in blue then – they didn’t really become the Whites until a bit later, so they

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