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Ellison: Plenty of goals in these boots yet!

BEFORE heading off on a 21- year Football League career, Kevin Ellison learnt the ins and outs of the game from a Non-League legend: Mark ‘Mad Dog’ Maddox.
Ellison: Plenty

By Matt Badcock

BEFORE heading off on a 21- year Football League career, Kevin Ellison learnt the ins and outs of the game from a Non-League legend: Mark ‘Mad Dog’ Maddox.
“He was a Non-League hard knock at the time,” Ellison, the former Tranmere, Chester City, Rotherham, Morecambe and Newport County winger, tells The NLP. “They used to say he’d tackle his nan! He was that type of centre-half. He wore his heart on his sleeve. At Altrincham he did everything and is an absolute hero there.
“For my grounding he’d give advice, or have a little chirp at me to keep my feet on the ground. He hel...

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