Matt BADCOCK

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END OF AN ERA: Tom Shaw, seen here celebrating in his Chester days, has hung up his boots
PICTURE: TGSPHOTO

IF THERE’S a good measure for the years ticking by, it’s players younger than you retiring.
Tom Shaw, 31, hung up his boots this week to start a new job as Lead Academy coach at League Two side Lincoln City.
It doesn’t seem all that long ago I first met Shaw at Gatwick Airport as the England C squad met up on an early Sunday mor ning in November 2009 to fly to Poland.
Even back then you could sense the former Rushd...