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Bruce Grobbelaar on tackling racism, fighting for his life and how football saved him

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Bruce Grobbelaar is perfectly placed to voice an opinion on some of the burning issues currently facing the world. At the age of 17, in the days before football saved the former Liverpool goalkeeper from becoming a dead-man walking, Grobbelaar was plunged into a bloody civil war in his native Rhodesia that claimed 20,000 lives.

It wasn’t the black versus white conflict that has often been portrayed. Many of the soldiers who fought alongside Grobbelaar in a futile attempt to prevent rebel forces from taking over the country that was to be renamed Zimbabwe in 1980 were black.

Now aged 63, the former Liverpool keeper still carries the mental scars from two teenage years of bitter jungle combat. Grobbelaar killed – and also saw close friends

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