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When you’ve broken into your hometown club’s first team as a teenager, played in the Premier League and for England at the World Cup – not to mention taken on bushtucker trials in the Australian jungle – you’re used to pressure.

KIERON DYER LANDS HIS FIRSTBOSS’ JOB AT SOUTHEND UNITED
By MATT BADCOCK

When you’ve broken into your hometown club’s first team as a teenager, played in the Premier League and for England at the World Cup – not to mention taken on bushtucker trials in the Australian jungle – you’re used to pressure.
And that’s probably also why Kieron Dyer is comfortable with setting out high expectations in his first season as Southend United head coach.
“I set the targets and I am looking for promotion,” Dyer tells the assembled press at the Shrimpers’ training ground. “Obviously we want to win the leag...

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