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HAYNES IN THE MONEY

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The Football League caves to pressure from PFA chairman Jimmy Hill, bookmakers and the public in January, ending football’s £20 maximum weekly wage and averting a nationwide strike. Fulham’s chairman Tommy Trinder is the biggest loser, having said he’d pay Johnny Haynes £100 a week if he could. “Poor Tom was lumbered,” Haynes later said, “but he stood by it and paid me £100 a week.”

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