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Chris Dunlavy: Age is no longer just a number

Ollie Pearce couldn’t have done much more to earn a shot at the EFL, but even a 30-goal season won’t do the trick these days. Not if you’re 29, anyway.
Ollie Pearce scored 31 goals for York City in the National League last season

By Chris Dunlavy - A fresh take on football

Ollie Pearce couldn’t have done much more to earn a shot at the EFL, but even a 30-goal season won’t do the trick these days. Not if you’re 29, anyway.
Examples abound of wily veterans signed by canny managers whose inspirational impact has gone down in legend.
Teddy Sheringham was 31 when he made a £3.5m move to Manchester United in 1997.
By the time he departed four years later, the striker had made 153 appearances, scored 46 goals, won three Premier league titles and collected the PFA Player of the Year award.
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