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Big interview: Pat Rice

Very few people in the history of the game know the feeling of winning the league and FA Cup double in English football.

Fewer still have experienced winning it more than once, as both a player and a coach, in different generations.

But Pat Rice belongs to that most exclusive of clubs. Having joined us as an apprentice aged 15, his breakthrough in the first team came five years later, when he became a regular at right back at the start of the 1970/71 season. A fully committed, whole-hearted defender, he missed just one game all campaign, forming part of a miserly back four that conceded only 29 games from 42 league games.