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| | Football: Barmby's brilliance a shining example for Smith Independent, The (London) - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Whether or not the (strangely anonymous) contributor was at Upton Park on Saturday, he doubtless shouted as loud as anyone when Barmby stole forward three times from the centre of a five-man midfield to record the first hat-trick of his career and set up Everton's biggest- ever league victory on the east London ground. |
 | | "Nick Barmby, John Collins and Mark Pembridge worked extremely hard in midfield." That might have been a pointed reference to Everton's erstwhile captain Don Hutchison, dropped from Saturday's game after describing the club's offer of a new contract as "a disgrace". |
 | | Barmby, in contrast, remains Everton's most expensive acquisition, signed from Middlesbrough for pounds 5.75m in October 1996, at a time when he was playing, and scoring, for England. |
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