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Wolves Basque Refugee: The Story of Emilio Aldecoa

Preamble: During an away trip to watch Wolves play Milton Keynes Dons six years ago, a few mates and I stumbled across a tapas bar, hidden within a seemingly endless sprawl of non-descript office blocks. Amidst steel-and-glass boulevards, we sat outside drinking copious amounts of Spanish lager in the unseasonal heat of the late-March sun.  Despite the familiarity of being surrounded by thousands upon thousands of Wolves fans (11,000 of whom had journeyed south to watch a Saturday fixture in English football's third tier), the afternoon felt unusual, untypical of a normal weekend jaunt to other away grounds. MK Dons - March 29 2014 Arriving at Milton Keynes' central-to-nowhere Central Station, the warm weather, continental lager and carnival atmosphere - all set within the unfamiliar strangeness of the archetypal New Town – combined to underpin the pervasive sense of peculiarity.  Sitting pissed-up in the middle of Milton Keynes – the diametric opposite