Manning, an Essex fan, and his friend Geoff, go to go to Test matches every year and make an annual pilgrimage to the Cheltenham Festival but are far from county regulars.

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Mr Szymanski, a Scunthorpe United fan, insists that practical rather than sentimental concerns led him to test this idea in the English football leagues.

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The beta test was dubbed "Samuel" and for Schober, a teenage fan of BBSes (bulletin board systems), it was an intriguing opportunity.

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Driven by a six-blade mahogany fan (see top picture) with a diameter of 9.1m, the tunnel was used to test full-sized aircraft prototypes like the Spitfire.

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"Whether you did, or you didn't, you still won 7 tour titles, you never failed a test and what you have done to increase the awareness of cancer, is enormous, " one fan wrote on his Facebook fan page.

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