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When Laurie Walker joined MK Dons as a schoolboy, he couldn’t have dreamt he’d be forced to wait 15 years for his debut.
There’s been

BY CHRIS DUNLAVY

WHEN Laurie Walker joined MK Dons as a schoolboy, he couldn’t have dreamt he’d be forced to wait 15 years for his debut.
Released as a teenager, the goalkeeper spent his entire career in Non-League before being plucked from Hemel Hempstead by his boyhood club at the age of 31.
Little wonder, then, that Walker names his long-awaited bow for the Dons as his greatest achievement in the game.
But who is the best player he ever faced? And which current Barnet team-mate has the power to lift any dressing room? The Bees stopper reveals all…
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