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Trevor Birch: Football’s firefighter returns to the frontline

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PA Images | Former Swansea City player Leon Britton (left) and former Swansea City chairman Trevor Birch.

Now aged 62, new EFL CEO has run six different clubs, but never stayed longer than two years.

As a teenage footballer, Birch was a prolific striker for Liverpool Reserves before turning to accountancy and the non-league game.

Credited for bringing Roman Abramovich to Chelsea and saving Leeds and Portsmouth from the abyss.

10 December 2020 - 5:06 PM

By James Corbett, Senior Correspondent

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