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- ↑ Tarrant. Millwall: The Complete Record. p. 534.
- ↑ "Tottenham Football/ Premier League debut scorers".
- ↑ Vancouver Sun news report Archived 8 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 21 June 2010