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Football, as Steven Whittaker will testify, has urban myths all of its own. They are not as sensational as alligators lurking in sewers, Paul McCartney dying in 1966 and - who can forget? - the bloke in the Spiderman outfit hoping to excite his wife with superhero role-playing who’s left in a crumpled heap on the bedroom floor after a leap from the top of the wardrobe goes wrong. Still, though, the game’s tall tales amuse and intrigue and are passed with a nudge and whisper from fan to fan, right along the back row of the stand.