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by huwswans100 | January 20, 2012 · 8:47 am
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Roy Evans and Brian Purcell RIP

Forty-three years ago today, two former Swans players Roy Evans and Brian Purcell were killed in a car crash on the Heads of the Valley road while en route to a game for their club Hereford United.

Read an appreciation of Roy and Brian on a Hereford site

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