How John Crossan became football's most harshly treated player

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The best stories from the beautiful game that you may never have heard before, written by some of the world’s leading sports journalists, and spanning more than 100 years of sporting history from across the footballing planet. In this episode: banned for ‘life’ in 1959, the former Northern Ireland forward John Crossan can consider himself the most harshly treated footballer of all time

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