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Steve Hill: Don’t be sad, be grateful!

“Burke’s gone”. Two words on my phone that transformed a normal Thursday evening into a JFK moment.

FANS’ FAVOURITE: Departed Harrison Burke with adoring fans at Chester PICTURE: Rick Matthews

By Steve Hill - Hilly’s away days

“Burke’s gone”. Two words on my phone that transformed a normal Thursday evening into a JFK moment.
Unlike the dead Kennedy, we knew the bullet was coming – it was just a question of when and where.
As I replied to my son’s brief but brutal text: “Bloody Walsall!”
Like many Chester FC fans, I will always remember where I was when I heard of feted centre-back Harrison Burke’s departure from the Seals to the Saddlers.
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Improbably, I was in a theatre in Taunton about to make a cameo in a friend’s comedy show.
But once the laughter had subsided I felt...

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