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Masterplan: Fear no more

The story of this build started in 2012 at Wrexham SC’s Funday where Craig and Michael Ford (Fordy) first met properly. “We’d both attended the event on our scooters and before parting company for good we pulled up at a garage to fill up. When we pulled up it was clear that Fordy had a problem with his scooter; and if I remember rightly his clutch exploded on him! So basically he and his wife Kim were in a bit of a mess. Fordy didn’t have breakdown cover, but I did through my bank. After a bit of head-scratching and wondering what to do I rang my breakdown recovery company and organised a plan which would get them

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