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CHRIS DUNLAVY: Fry’s got an eye for a bargain

Barry Fry loves to tell the story of how Peterborough United plucked Dwight Gayle from Dagenham & Redbridge.
CHRIS DUNLAVY:

Chris DUNLAVY
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

BARRY Fry loves to tell the story of how Peterborough United plucked Dwight Gayle from Dagenham & Redbridge.
The game was 70 minutes old when the striker emerged from the bench, and almost every other scout had already gone home. But not Baz. He was still there to see Gayle hit the post, strike the bar and generally run riot.
“I’ve seen a player,” he told chairman Darragh MacAnthony from his seat in the stand. “We’ve got to get him.” Within the hour, a deal was struck and Gayle’s journey to the Premier League had begun.
It is a tale that encap...

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