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The dramatic rise and fall of Dele Alli: From English football's next big thing to a failed loan spell in Turkey with a hippy crack controversy and being held at knife point in between... the troubled ex-Spurs star has had a rollercoaster career

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For most football fans, Dele Alli is a name that elicits perhaps a greater sense of frustration than most in England's long history of producing world-class talent.

From a young age, Dele had huge potential and appeared to make the step up with greater ease than any of his peers. He seemed destined to go further than any English player had gone in a long time.

But as meteoric as his rise has been, his fall has been almost as breath-taking. As suddenly as he burst onto the scene at Tottenham in 2015-16, he swiftly and inexplicably fell from grace.