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    Brian Glanville RIP

    https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/may/17/brian-glanville-journalist-football-writer-dies-aged-93
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    Round of 8 (AKA The Quarter-Finals)

    Or the Sixth Round in local parlance. Or maybe not. Anyway, from The Guardian: After months of being hampered by injury and only being able to train sporadically, Leroy Sané says he is finally pain-free and has backed himself to make an impact for Germany when they face Spain in Friday’s...
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    Copa América 2024

    So, as some of us are clearly 24-hour party people, why not supplement your Euro 2024 overdose with Copa América 2024, starting tonight in the USA and "it's live!" on Premier Sports for those of you with esoteric televisual entertainment subscriptions. Argentina begin their title defence...
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    Promotion 2023/24

    Well, you'll thank me on Monday...
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    The "Bracket" or The "Second Phase"

    Back when I was a lad, circa 1982, we referred to the later rounds of a World Cup as "the second phase". That was probably because it wasn't a straight knockout but a hybrid system of groups and semi-finals. But the term stuck and, frankly, it still sounds grander than "the bracket" or "pelvic...
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    The Moment You Knew He Had Failed...

    As an Evertonian of 42 years, I have often looked back at managers and other officials at Everton and tried to pinpoint the moment I realised that they had failed and would not make a success of the role they were in. In my experience, from my perspective, the club usually acts only later than...
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