STEPPING UP: Prolific striker Dave Tarpey

By Sam Elliott
DAVE TARPEY finally fulfilled his lifetime ambition of becoming a Football League player – but thanks to his chair man’s five-aside match, a dodgy fax machine and a painfully slow e-mail connect it almost never happened!
The Maidenhead United striker, 28, is a full-time professional for the first time as he secured a last minute switch to League Two Barnet on transfer deadline day.
He went for a “substantial” record fee but had the move happened two months earlier, they wouldn’t have earned a penny.
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