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THE START OF A BRIGHT FUTURE

THE START

By David Richardson
BY THE time Mark Bright returned to the Football League, he was ready.
Tossed aside by Port Vale at 16, the striker was left working part-time in a hydraulics factory while playing Sunday League football for the Mason Arms with his friends.
But Non-League was the beginning of a career which led him to playing in the Premier League for Leicester City, Crystal Palace, Sheffield Wednesday and Charlton Athletic.
Spells at Kidsgrove Athletic and then Leek Town “shaped” him into the recognised goalscorer he became at Palace under Steve Coppell where he formed a par...

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