Matt BADCOCK

AN INFORMED AND ENTERTAINING READ
RUSS PENN might never have reached 600 games of football.
The York City midfielder’s first wasn’t until he was a 20-yearold when he made his Kidderminster Harriers debut against the club he now calls home.
“It wasn’t a thriller – 0-0!” Penn laughs.
But it could have all been very different.
“I did my YTS at Scunthorpe but I never had my chance really,” he says. “Brian Laws, at the time, didn’t really look into the youth so that was it. I went back home.
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