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I would like to thank Simon Meeks and Jane Salt of the Sheffield Star for their help with the research when I needed to jog my memory; Kate Fowle whose comments on the draft were most helpful; Tanya Arnold, who made the phone call; Lucian Randall at John Blake Publishing for his encouragement from the word go; my wife Debbie, who gave me the drive to succeed; my sister Theresa Smith; and my friends, Clifton Mitchell, Kevin Adamson, Mark Willie, Ryan Rhodes, Stinger Mason, Danny Thompson, Godwin Allert, John ‘Buster’ Keeton and Carl Baker, for helping me put the pieces together for this book.

Most importantly, thanks to my mentor and friend Brendan Ingle, along with his sons John and Dominic Ingle, who taught me self-belief can change everything.

I have tried to set down the events in my life as I experienced them at the time and as I remember them now. Naturally, the dialogue as I have reproduced it will not be word for word as it was said, but it is how I remember it and, I believe, true to what was said. Others may recall some events slightly differently but this is my memory of them and my view of how and why they occurred.