Football: Beardsley remains a beacon amid the madness

From: The Independent - London | Date: January 12, 2002| Author: James Lawton | Copyright information

PETER BEARDSLEY rarely puts his head above the football parapet these days. There are compelling reasons why he prefers working quietly with the boys in the Newcastle United academy.

One of them is that even when he operated in a brilliant striking partnership for England with Gary Lineker almost his every public utterance was received with unremitting scorn. Beardsley gave off little stardust. He was fodder for the cheap shot stand-up comics who fed so hungrily on the carcass of the ...

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