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If you had told Adam Dodd a year ago that he would get the chance to play at the San Siro, he would have been entitled to think you were crackers.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
25 June 2023

SAN SIRO GAVE FC UNITED ACE TIME TO REFLECT
BY JOHN LYONS

FANS’ FAVOURITE: Adam Dodd in action for FC United before giving the fans a treat at the San Siro, insets left and right
PICTURE: Alamy

IF YOU had told Adam Dodd a year ago that he would get the chance to play at the San Siro, he would have been entitled to think you were crackers.
It was in early June last year that the FC United defender came within a whisker of losing his life. He went to bed as normal, but then had a cardiac arrest in the middle of the night. Fortunately, his girlfriend Kat heard him gasping and was able t...

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