Reporter Jane Franchi Who knows how many top players of yesterday learned to kick a football in the playground.

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Campaigners say six tennis courts, a football pitch and the main playground will go in a deal with housing developers.

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The vibe of this complaint is that of a suburban prep schooler who has wandered into a playground where the mean city boys took his football and then twisted his arm really hard.

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Deng spoke no English when he arrived in the Big Smoke at the age of eight, yet his football prowess soon made him a popular figure in the school playground.

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Perhaps the playground was where another Celtic legend, Jock Weir, began his love affair with football.

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The children went mad on our arrival and their football team happily beat us at a game of barefoot five-a-side on their stone-ridden playground.

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