Teacher banned after claiming he'd played for professional football clubs
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Teacher banned after claiming he'd played for professional football clubs
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"A PE teacher has been barred from teaching after falsely claim he had played for two professional football teams and England youth - only to be found out by a pupil. Between 2015 and 2016, Aaron Smith told his employer that he had played for West Bromwich Albion and Leicester City between the ages of 11 and 20, as well as representing England schoolboys at U15 level."
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