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- ↑ Durrant Brown at National-Football-Teams.com
- ↑ "WRAY & NEPHEW PREMIER LEAGUE GOAL SCORERS 2002/03". Archived from the original on 19 October 2003.
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- ↑ 1998 FIFA World Cup: Jamaica Squad FIFA. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
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