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Former Cardiff City, Stoke City and Hereford defender Chris Barker (pictured, right) has died at the age of 39.

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The Sheffield-born player helped the club to promotion from English league division two to division one in 2003.

South Wales Police has confirmed the sudden death of a 39-year-old man who was discovered at his home address in the Cyncoed area of Cardiff at approximately 14:00 on New Year's Day.

Officers added that his death was not being treated as suspicious and the coroner had been informed.

He played on loan for Stoke in 2004 and was player-coach with Hereford in 2016., external

Former Cardiff City, Stoke City, Barnsley and Queens Park Rangers defender Chris Barker dies aged 39.

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Watford's remarkable revival under Nigel Pearson continues as they hang on with 10 men to beat Wolves and move a point from safety.

Watford manager Nigel Pearson is proud of his side's "unity" after they beat Wolves despite going down to 10 men.

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Watford

Watford midfielder Abdoulaye Doucoure speaking to BT Sport: "We are so happy to have Nigel Pearson come in. Everyone is pushing together, we are so proud of how we played.

"We deserved to win, we have had a fantastic week and we want to carry on and get out of the relegation zone. We pressed high, we didn't let them play and we deserved to score our goals.

On whether Watford can stay up: "Yes of course, not a lot of people believe in us but we will fight to stay in the Premier League, and we will do it."

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Rob Green
Former Chelsea and England goalkeeper on BBC Radio 5 Live

The form of Ben Foster has been a big reason why Watford have turned things around. He makes big saves at key moments in games.

Dion Dublin
Former Man Utd striker on BBC Final Score

It's a great strike from Neto - he is 25 yards out from goal and has just thought 'i'm going to have a go'. He gets lucky with the way it goes over the goalkeeper, but if you take the chance to shoot then you deserve it.

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Dion Dublin
Former Man Utd striker on BBC Final Score

Abdoulaye Doucoure's shot takes a deflection off Conor Coady, who is trying to stay strong but it has gone just past the goalkeeper. You have to say Watford have deserved it. They have got forward and created chances in this second half. Wolves, though, are unrecognisable from the team we have seen this season.

Darryl Finch: I feel like we’ve seen this story before... too early to stick a few quid on Watford to win the league next year?!

Andy Reid
Ex-Nottingham Forest and Tottenham midfielder on BBC Radio 5 live

Deulofeu opened his body up like Thierry Henry used to do, a brilliant finish.

Dion Dublin
Former Man Utd striker on BBC Final Score

How has Nigel Pearson got things back on track at Watford? Rules and regulation. Law and order - he's laid that down. Pearson has shaken up the dressing room and told them what to do by being honest and saying 'look we are in a relegation fight'. He has got Troy Deeney on board as well which is a big thing. Troy wears the armband, is the catalyst for them to work hard and please the fans.

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BBC Radio Stoke Sport

The Stoke City manager Michael O'Neill has told fans "it's difficult to play football which is maybe more attractive when you're in our situation".

They're just outside the Championship relegation zone on goal difference after their defeat to Fulham, but he said they'd shown "qualities that are going to move us up the league".

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Stoke play the two sides above them in the table, Derby and Huddersfield, in the coming weeks and O'Neill said the priority at the moment was "to get points on the board, to get to a level of comfort".

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