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Rodney Marsh: 'I told the Manchester City chairman that the manager was useless ... 20 minutes later I was sacked'
In part II of his interview with Richard Jolly, the maverick striker on how he missed out on lifting the League Cup and ended up at Tampa Bay Rowdies
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Richard Jolly
April 28, 2020
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