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The Big Interview: Adam Le Fondre still has targets after goal-laden career

Adam Le Fondre scored 12 goals in his solitary season as a Premier League footballer. That’s a better minutes-per-goal ratio than Mo Salah and Harry Kane.
CLASS ACT: Adam Le Fondre, centre, scored 17 goals for FC United of Manchester last term PICTURE: Alamy

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Adam Le Fondre scored 12 goals in his solitary season as a Premier League footballer. That’s a better minutes-per-goal ratio than Mo Salah and Harry Kane.
Yet when the Reading team he represented were relegated at the end of that 2012-13 campaign, not one top-flight team made him an offer. Did that snub never rankle?
“Well, that’s two questions really,” muses the 38-year-old, now enjoying his twilight years with FC United in the NPL Premier.
“If you’re asking whether I’d have liked to stay in the Premier League then the answer is o...

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