King’s Lynn Town keeper has lifelong memories of ‘work experience’ at Old Trafford

By MATT BADCOCK

BAPTISM OF FIRE: Exeter’s Paul Jones mixes it with Manchester United’s Wes Brown and Gerard Pique in the FA Cup
PICTURE: NLP Photographer

LOCAL plumbing company? A week working in the family business? Not for Paul Jones. The goalkeeper’s work experience included starting in goal in the FA Cup third round at Manchester United.
“It’s strange –I don’t know how they class that as work experience, but that’s what it was, ”Jones says.
That was how the keeper’s loan to Exeter City was termed as the Grecians, then in the Conference, famously took the Old Trafford giants to a repl...

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