Football pundit Andy Gray is the only previous winner of both Professional Footballers' Association awards, scooping the twin-prize during his first stint with Aston Villa in 1977.

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But a previous publisher, Harrison Gray Otis, so angered labor leaders with his opposition to unions that John McNamara of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers dispatched his brother James to blow up the Times building in 1910.

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