Gunter is one of a host of promising youngsters in Toshack's squad along with West Ham United's midfielder Jack Collison, former flat-mate and Arsenal playmaker Aaron Ramsey, Manchester City striker Ched Evans and Spurs team-mate Gareth Bale.

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Right after the first of the year the family moved to Chicago, population 2.2 million, where Jack and Nelle chose another flat with six rooms an architectural feature unique to Illinois, and particularly Chicago, that gives an apartment the feel of a house.

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In the lobby, a flat panel TV was streaming video clips of Jack Ma speaking at various public events where his admirers, most of them in their twenties, were cheering him like a rock star.

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