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Peter Doherty was a Beckham or Messi of his day. The great Northern Ireland international became player-manager towards the end of his playing career at Doncaster Rovers in what in those more straightforward days was called the Second Division. Perhaps, then, there is little reason to wonder why a blond stripling of a lad from the Doncaster Schoolboys side resisted an approach from the then mighty Sheffield Wednesday by deciding instead to sign with Rovers as an amateur in 1950. Well, they had also found him a job at the locomotive sheds for 25 shillings a week (£1.25 in modern parlance) and everyone knew anyway that the chances of any aspiring player ‘making it’ were remote.