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Holiday romance on the Riviera just kept blossoming for Kev

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
4 June 2017

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By Chris Dunlavy
KEVIN Nicholson never had any intention of his “two-year adventure” in Torquay becoming a permanent life on the English Riviera.
“I was actually having a barbecue at my dad’s in Derby when Paul Buckle rang me,” recalls the 36-year-old, who would go on to make 314 appearances for the Gulls.
“We had a chat, he sold the club and asked if I’d like to come down to look around. I walked back into the garden and said to my girlfriend ‘Torquay have been on the phone – how far away is that?’.
“We literally ended up on...

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