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SPICE BOY SHANE DID ITALIAN JOB!

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
12 April 2020

By Edd Paul

GRAND STAGE: Shane Smeltz, left, tussles with Italy’s Daniele De Rossi in the World Cup and playing for AFC Wimbledon, inset left. Right: Fabio Cannavaro
PICTURE: PA Images

IT’S March 2005. AFC Wimbledon, nearly three years old at this point, host Newport – the Isle of Wight remix – in a Ryman South clash. The Dons boasted a shiny new addition up top; having cast the net out into the murky depths of free agency they managed to haul in New Zealand international Shane Smeltz.
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