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Francis Duku: Staying in shape is key now

It’s fair to say that the way players look after themselves in the close season has changed a lot since my playing days.

By Francis Duku - Former Non-League defender and The Sports Circle

It’s fair to say that the way players look after themselves in the close season has changed a lot since my playing days.
In my time, players couldn’t wait to get off on holiday at the end of the season and didn’t really worry about playing football again until two or three weeks before we started back.
You’d have ‘a good summer’, for want of a better phrase, and then it would be a case of running, and more running, at the start of pre-season.
There would be sessions where we’d be told – ‘just bring your running shoes, don’...

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