Dion Dublin: Holding the ball up

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Shrug off your marker and bring your team-mates into the game, says the former Aston Villa ace Dion Dublin

Former Premier League hotshot Dion Dublin made a career out of playing as a powerful target man.

After spending much of his career beating up on the Premier League's meanest defences, Dublin has a wealth of knowledge to pass on to strikers across the land.

Here, he discloses the tricks of the trade he used to hold off his adversaries and maintain possession for his team.

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Huw Davies

Huw was on the FourFourTwo staff from 2009 to 2015, ultimately as the magazine's Managing Editor, before becoming a freelancer and moving to Wales. As a writer, editor and tragic statto, he still contributes regularly to FFT in print and online, though as a match-going #WalesAway fan, he left a small chunk of his brain on one of many bus journeys across France in 2016.