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Football’s star turns

Ahead of tonight’s Vodafone Allstar football team announcement, our experts select their sides of the season.

Fri, 19 Oct, 2007 - 01:00

Tony Leen, Sports Editor

THIS team won’t be manacled by the sectionalising of the nominations. Therefore Cork’s Donncha O’Connor gets in at No 12 for no other reason than he deserves an All-Star for his season’s work. Which is no bad reason. And he kept going in the final, and displayed a resilience conspicuously absent in some of his colleagues.

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