Latchford

By the time Swansea began the 1981–82 season, Toshack had broadened his recruitment policy by the width of Stanley Park to take former Evertonians Dai Davies, Gary Stanley, Neil Robinson and Bob Latchford to the Vetch.

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Latchford scored a hat-trick, the much missed attacking-midfield colossus Robbie James set up a couple of goals, and at 4-1 the North Bank at Vetch Field began singing Land of My Fathers.

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Prof Peter Charles Russell Latchford, for serv business and to the commty in the W Midlands.

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Latchford was powerful and agile, excellent in the air and possessed a scorching right-foot shot but despite scoring 138 goals in 289 appearances for Everton, he won only 12 England caps and only three during the 1977-78 season when his 30 league goals won him a £30,000 bonus from the Daily Express.

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Latchford, though, benefited from forming valuable pairings at Everton with the contrasting skills of the mercurial Duncan McKenzie and the industrious Jim Pearson.

Darren Bent is the latest in a long line of lone wolves | Rob Bagchi 2011

Both men pleaded guilty to creating the pages, which were entitled "Smash Down Northwich Town" and "Let's Have a Riot in Latchford."

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There was to be no repeat of 1981, when their previous rise through the divisions resulted in Bob Latchford plundering a hat-trick in a 5-1 defeat of Leeds United on the opening day, but then there will be no repeat of this calibre of opposition when Wigan Athletic visit the first Welsh club to feature in the Premier League on Saturday.

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Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, of Latchford, Warrington, used his Facebook account in the early hours of 9 August to design a web page entitled The Warrington Riots.

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Both men pleaded guilty to creating the pages, which were entitled "Smash Down Northwich Town" and "Let's Have a Riot in Latchford."

2 British Men Given Jail Time for Inciting Riots on Facebook 2011

Back then the individuals making up certain striking double acts became synonymous with each other but Latchford and Hatton, genuine co-stars rather than master and servant, do not quite trip off the tongue in the manner of their illustrious peers.

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