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Former Premier League winger’s fight for his pension

- By ADAM CRAFTON

The Profession­al Footballer­s’ Associatio­n has once again been accused of neglecting a former player after ex-Premier League winger Jamie Lawrence endured a 16-month fight to be paid his pension fund.

The PFA have already launched a full independen­t review of their operations after chairman Ben Purkiss demanded change in a

Sportsmail interview in November. Chief executive Gordon Taylor, the highest paid union boss in the world, earned £2.2million last year.

There was further fury when Purkiss claimed the organisati­on had £50m in the bank but spent only £100,000 on dementia research last year.

Now former Bradford City winger Lawrence has claimed the PFA located his pension fund only after pressure from

Sportsmail. he said: ‘If I was a big player, they would have moved heaven and earth to find the money. As I’m just little Jamie Lawrence who played for Bradford, they are sitting in their big offices and don’t care.

‘After being so slow for 16 months, it took a call from the

Daily Mail for them to spring into action and within 48 hours they managed to find the money. That is not how it should work.’

Lawrence contacted the PFA in November 2017 to request assistance in tracking down a pension fund. Footballer­s pay

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