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@ESPNUK This is a paradox. Whoever gets the most votes cannot be the most most underrated, by definition.

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@gilmourstan “What has he actually done?” *Proceeds to list four seasons of considerable, consistent improvement.

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@hardestgeezer To those rushing to the comments to tell a stranger how disappointed they are that he's socialised with someone whose political views don't align with theirs: the phrase 'grow up' springs to mind. Few things in life are as tedious as your attitude.

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Every word 👍

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FT: Brentford 0 Chelsea 0. An entertaining and full-blooded stalemate with some outstanding defending on show. Kepa and Azpilicueta brilliant for #CFC . Raya and Pinnock outstanding for Brentford. Chelsea sharper after second-half subs but Brentford fully deserved a point.

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@btsportfootball You know a meme’s dead when BT Sport start getting in on the act. Like seeing your dad laughing about it in the family WhatsApp group.

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@brfootball Very decent of Andre Schurrle to make an appearance.

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@talkSPORT Regardless of who’s better, anyone who thinks Salah and Beckham play in the same position are stark raving. Like saying Makelele and Ozil play in the same position 🥴

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@HLTCO What strikes me as odd about this is that referees obviously consider being sent to the monitor 'humiliating'. Not sure fans see it this way. Being sent to the monitor feels like VAR in action, not evidence of a referee's failure. It's troubling that officials don't agree.

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@talkSPORT Martin Skrtel, no question.

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@Ebe4Eva Let me start by saying I think Lewandowski is better than Kane, but ‘better passer’ and ‘better link up play’ immediately tells me you haven’t watched Kane properly.

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@Football__Tweet ‘Min Son’ is up there with ‘Bruyne’ and ‘Gea’ in the battle for most vomit-inducing footballer surname abbreviation 🤮

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@oilysailor Everton were a 10th place side when Rafa took over. They were a demoralised, relegation-battling side when Lampard came in. Context is pretty vital for this one.

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@JayMotty #MUFC supporters' relentless defence of this is genuinely baffling. Like, you won a huge game and fully deserved to … can you not just put tribalism aside for a second and admit that the goal shouldn't have stood?

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@FabrizioRomano Staggering. First he downs tools just a few months into a £98m move. Then, after being generously loaned back to his club of choice, & with his sense of entitlement in overdrive, he demands a second loan, & when he doesn’t get it, he tries to engineer a move to Inter’s rivals

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@FabrizioRomano This whole sorry saga really is telling us a lot about Romelu Lukaku.

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@SteveWilding7 Peter Drury is a fabulous verbal wordsmith, but call me old-fashioned, I don’t need energy, pizazz and a 150 word sonnet every single time a goal goes in. Give me Tyler all day. And cut him some slack, he’s nearly 80-years-old!

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@PLClassics Not anymore. Hasn't scored many recently.

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@bet365 Messi in the warmup. Messi in the first half. Messi in the second half.

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@ESPNUK Eden Hazard received 96 man of the match awards between 2012 and 2020 In Europe’s top leagues, only Messi (225) and Ronaldo (125) received more. Hazard was, simply put, the very best player on the pitch more often than not. Not sure you can say the same about Salah

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@afneil BBC icon Andrew Neil using youth parlance [‘melt’] to insult Luke Skywalker wasn’t on my bingo card I must admit.

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@talkSPORT Salah is, by all intents and purposes, a striker, not a winger. I’d bet his career heat map would be strikingly similar to Thierry Henry’s (though a mirror-image). Beckham has never been anything close to a winger.

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CC: Virgil van Dijk

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2 years

Michael Essien went 101 games unbeaten at Stamford Bridge between August 2005 - February 2011.

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@Criminalsimpson “Suspect is hatless. Repeat, hatless.”

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@brfootball Not a single dull encounter among them either 👏

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@JustStop_Oil @George_Osborne This is vile, no matter your opinions of the groom. Ruining someone’s wedding day, what utterly horrid folk.

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@Madders10 It's in bad faith to accuse @RobTannerLCFC of encouraging a pile-on (And hypocritical considering Maddison has gone after him with 10x the number of followers) Journalists are allowed to criticise teams and players, and shouldn't be shamed for doing their job.

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@JamesMelville Clare Balding: “Wimbledon fans always root for the underdog”. Err… since f*cking when? Even if what she claimed was true, players don’t get *booed* simply because the fans want the other bloke to win. The crowd at SW19 haven’t ever loved Djokovic like they have Federer or

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@ESPNUK Not sure why so many Chelsea fans are taking issue with this. Other than for a period during his first season Pulisic was never treated like a first-choice player, and he spent much of the Tuchel era playing out of position. He's not being spiteful, just honest.

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@sthsthburner @CFCCentral3 If they wanted a ‘father figure’ then why did they hire a bloke younger than several members of their squad? 🤨

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@LFCmarcuss @ahmedIfc @ftblmike_ Call him overrated by all means, as much as I don’t agree, but to say he ‘didn’t do much overall’ suggests you never really watched him properly.

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@SkySportsPL @ChrisWheatley I don’t see an elbow in the neck, I see a shrug-off that was a little too aggressive. Regardless, players give officials shit all game, every game, & some of it looks/sounds incredibly nasty. If the linesman’s reaction was a little OTT I’d say he’s probably earned a let off.

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@ESPNUK I think comparing them on goal stats isn’t going to tell you much. Salah is a ruthless goalscorer, Hazard is (or was, at least) a creative magician. What he did well was often unquantifiable, but man of the match award tallies are a decent window into a player’s effectiveness.

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@SkySportsPL @Carra23 I know he offered up a proper response afterwards but Micah Richards’ sniggering really grinds my gears *insert PeterGriffin.gif* Arrogant & annoying, particularly as Carra’s was a really interesting point I’m sure he’s a lovely bloke, but MR is paid to be a pundit, not a clown

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@StianTonning @GaryLineker You absolutely could. Ronaldo isn’t quite the clever 6-yard poacher that Muller was, but he’s closer to that than he is to the genius of Messi.

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@brfootball Henry wore 12 for France for years - come on, lads.

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@jamiewiIkinson Can I ask, Jamie, who you think initially instigated this transfer? Chelsea or Havertz? Because if the answer is the former (and reports strongly indicate it was), Havertz’s comments are completely understandable. Players aren’t fans. They don’t have the same unwavering loyalty

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@the_nihilist_LA @Football__Tweet I’m not mocking his surname, ‘Commander’, I’m doing the opposite! Calling him ‘Min Son’ is a nonsensical butchering of his name, which is Son Heung-min.

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@brfootball Must have hired the blokes who designed Juventus’ new logo. Yeesh, what a bland monstrosity this is.

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@YRRAHG98 @HLTCO I'm 100% sure Anthony Taylor would've received a fraction of the grief he ended up getting after missing that hair-pull if he'd have been sent to the monitor and, you know, got the decision right. Fans tend to accept decisions when they're correct.

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@LfcShaunjudge You could say the same thing about every single international goalscorer. Accusing Kane of being a flat track bully when he’s broken the England goal record aged 29 - when he debuted at 22 - and has done so with a gpg ratio bettered only by Jimmy Greaves is a weird flex.

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@ESPNFC Phenomenal business Meg(a) nuts 🥜

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@ChelseaFC @CesarAzpi Arguably the best right back in Premier League history and I will happily make my case to anyone on that. Others might have more about them in terms of attacking attributes, but no one in his position over the past 20 odd years has been quite so brilliantly, imperviously

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@tagsbo @23Megabytes @danielstorey85 The moment we start vetting terrace chanting so that you’re not allowed to be rude about people will be the beginning of the death of football.

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@CFCBlues_com This kind of post will only make #CFC fans feel better about losing him, not worse. All it does is suggest insecurity. What good does scoring pathetic ‘I’m over you’ points actually do for him? Should be solely focused on fixing his damaged reputation instead of this nonsense.

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@mjcritchley @JackPittBrooke Intent is important. “Racism” is prejudice based on the belief that one’s race is superior to another. I’m not saying that B. Silva should be excused, but we have to keep our heads on when there isn’t any intent to offend or cause harm. Let’s calmly educate, not rashly punish.

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@michael_boyle08 @talkSPORT Wingers are forwards, Michael. Beckham is not a forward, he is a midfielder. Hence why he played *right midfield* for almost the entirety of his career.

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@talkRADIO @JuliaHB1 @Nick4Homes It’s actually sickening what happened to Nick Buckley. Genuinely sickening. He lost his job and all the objectively good work for disadvantaged people instantly forgotten because he had the ‘wrong’ opinion. Not even an illegal opinion, just the ‘wrong’ one.

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@GBNEWS This supposed 'slam dunk' argument of "the players haven't linked taking the knee to BLM, so therefore the fans shouldn't link it to BLM" is complete nonsense. Rightly or wrongly, taking the knee is now firmly associated with the political group, there's no escaping that...

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@chelseayouth Conor Gallagher is recognisable to a hilariously degree

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@tovers98 It’s funny. If he wanted #CFC owners to pay NHS staff he probably shouldn’t have campaigned so hard for the previous one to leave…

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@guardian Claiming that the ships are symbols of slavery makes even less sense than claiming the red Devil in Man Utd’s badge is a symbol of satanic worship. Everton’s badge has an 18th century prison on it. Are we to accuse them of celebrating a symbol of bondage?

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@StatmanDave People beginning to realise why Chelsea broke the bank for him. What a player.

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@TheLampardView Fans are over-analysing Chelsea’s problems - which aren’t all that deep. If the right manager is appointed, and the club buys and sells smartly (not excessively) over the summer they could win the Premier League next season.

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@GoalNews ‘Tell me you haven’t watched Moises Caicedo since November without telling me you haven’t watched Moises Caicedo since November’.

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2 years

The debate around striking is too often boiled down to an over-simplistic binary, that either you ‘care’ about nurses or you don’t. It’s possible to want nurses to be better paid and to think that striking is a bad idea. Those notions aren’t mutually exclusive.

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My exchange on Question time with the nurses’ leader Pat Cullen.

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@90sfootball 🇩🇪 Khan 🇮🇹 Maldini 🇵🇹 Figo 🇫🇷 Zidane 🇧🇷 Ronaldo

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@talkSPORT I feel like there’s subconscious continuity between Abramovich and Boehly in the eyes of #CFC ’s detractors. Abramovich was always the ‘disinterest Russian’ who was going to ‘chuck Chelsea out of the pram’ when he got bored, even years after that was evidently not the case…

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@EmGeeSanDiego @Sozzinski @Filly_Stein This tweet completely sums up the problem with identity politics. So tiresome. 🙄

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@footballontnt @tntsports @discoveryplusUK VAR has broken match officials’ minds.

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@LizTray @calvinrobinson @idriselba Some people are so weird! Even if I saw someone sat in a pub next to a person I despised politically... I wouldn’t dream of saying “and you expect people to be nice to you?” So strange. So much vitriol.

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@LysergicEldrich @hardestgeezer To be honest, I draw the line at comparing Rishi Sunak to fascist dictators, Jim.

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@a11ymckay @paulmjchilds @Reuters Sums the game up. Energy, passion, drama and Messi setting the example.

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@footballontnt @rioferdy5 Ferdinand flicking through his phone while on comms, missing one of the goals in the process, like a true pro.

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@Spigzy @harry_lineker @Cristiano Ronaldo can play all 11 positions? The man just walks about unless he knows there’s a chance he’ll be passed to. To suggest that Ronaldo is more versatile than Messi is ridiculous. Messi is both a forward and a midfielder for Barca alone!

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@Nathanminas1999 The man literally gives out exclusive information *for free* and you’re entitled enough to complain that it isn’t the information you want? Amazing.

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@SkySportsPL @Carra23 His ‘let’s not take this so seriously’ shtick can be a nice change of pace, but he really needs to learn when to turn the clowning off.

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@KonstantinKisin People care more about their side winning than being consistent with their morals, which is such a shame.

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@stokaljona If you see the words ‘shirt manufacturers’ and your mind goes to the Nigerian football team, rather than, you know, the actual shirt manufacturers, maybe *you’re* the one with the racism problem 🤷‍♂️

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@Mark_Wilkes27 This is the fundamental issue with ‘woke’ culture. It’s all for show. It’s all to *appear* to be good, rather than to actually *be* good. It’s cynical, it’s patronising and it’s regression in the name of “progress”. Why more don’t want to fight this shit is beyond me…

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@Elad_Si This is in-fucking-sane

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@PeterCrouchPod I’m not saying it’s wrong to pick Ferdinand and Vidic over Terry and Carvalho, but Carvalho has got to be one of the most consistently underrated players in Premier League history. He was top bracket, but always gets treated like an also-ran in these debates. Short memories.

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@AyoCaesar That’s not the point you were trying to dispute, Ash. You snorted derisively at the notion that African-based slavery was “to the same extent” as Trans-Atlantic slavery, then were told that, in terms of people taken and the death count, the Trans-Saharan slave trade was worse…

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“This UEFA computer can process over nine breakaways per day... did you really think you could fool it?” @EflSimpsons

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@Casey_Evans_ They took Ronaldo out of that Portugal team and they got better, in fact

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@CarefreeJonty @Chelsea_FL Both you and Neville appear to have forgotten that Macheda scored United’s goal that day with his hands! Had VAR been in place it’d have finished 1-0 to #CFC .

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@talkSPORT People want to see Chelsea as an artificial entity fuelled by a rich maverick, so Boehly fits the bill. In the UK we tend to think of Americans as brash, foolhardy and a bit dim, so it’s no surprise to see him characterised this way. Granted, his first few months…

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@brfootball Some are crackers, but the man must literally have the worst shots-to-goals ratio for free-kicks in the world

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@HssIceland @YRRAHG98 @HLTCO I think everyone agrees that hair-pulling is against the rules though.

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@IanDarke ... 2/2 Errors are far more egregious when they happen in spite of a system specifically introduced to stamp them out. It's fair to make the case that, if both scenarios produce errors, the system isn't fit for purpose. Not necessarily my view but I sympathise with it.

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@TristanHBE @JayMotty Inferring that there's some sort of media agenda against Man United isn't exactly "putting tribalism aside" as I initially suggested, Tristan.

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@talkSPORT … raised some red flags (mammoth spending, sacking Tuchel etc), but everything the club has been doing since the World Cup points to a calculated strategy. It might not work, but there *is* a strategy, & it’s time for these lazy characterisations of Boehly being an idiot to end

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🎙️ Darren Fletcher: “That’s unbelievable.” 🎙️ Ally McCoist: “I don’t believe that.” #DORPSG

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@talkSPORT A reminder that clubs are contractually obliged to pay players their wages in full even if they’re: - injured long-term - playing abysmally - under criminal investigation Clubs asking for acceptable fees when players suddenly decide they want out is more than fair.

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@IanDarke Fair point, but I think frustration with VAR lies with the fact we were told its introduction would all but eradicate errors. That hasn't happened. At least when an error was made pre-VAR there was, generally speaking, a 'well, that's football' level of acceptance ... 1/2

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@EyalLampert @oilysailor Not saying they’re transformed. Simply saying it’s disingenuous to credit Rafa more than Frank because he won more points. Whatever way you spin it, Lampard has managed to clean up a mess made by his predecessor(s). Doesn’t mean he’s the answer going forward, it’s just a fact.

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@TheSunFootball I agree with a lot of what Barnes has to say on racism, but not this. If a black Klopp turned up at Liverpool with 2 Bundesliga’s, a Champions League final & the gagenpress philosophy to his name, all on Dortmund’s budget, he’d be treated exactly the same as white-skinned Klopp.

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@ChelseaFC For me, N'Golo Kante is unquestionably the *most unique* player in PL history, and certainly one of the very best. When fit, he gets into every team in the world, without a shadow of a doubt. It's been an absolute privilege to watch and to cover him. An absolute legend💙 #CFC

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@kurosakiaduma @FabrizioRomano He’s a grown man with agency, and an experienced pro. He can’t be pulling the ‘I received bad advice’ card.

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@FabrizioRomano In a weird way I sort of admire his balls. Problem is, things keep blowing up in his face.

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@gerradcc @brfootball When you take about 90 in a season, eventually some are going to go in.

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@TheLampardView @GaryJCahill in the 2013 Europa League final says hi 👋

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@willreyner I'm not a CPO and haven't been a regular at SB for years, but I think this is bang on. A modern 60k+ seater stadium is an essential part of being a top football club, and the Earl's Court option is a rare open goal where we get the stadium we want + stay in the 'Chelsea' area.

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@RachelMcBain5 @sajjadali2012 @skytv Gary Glitter didn’t create rock and roll, and JK Rowling is not a convicted criminal. What a hopeless comparison.

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@adom_kelvin1 @goal Haha “check their stats”. Suarez has scored 447 goals compared to Aguero’s 385…

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@GaryLineker @TrentAA Can Jurgen Klopp just do this for the rest of the season so the people who keep asking for it can look stupid and we can all move on with our lives?

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@ESPNUK There’s an argument to say that Salah’s Premier League legacy is greater than Hazard’s. I’d dispute this, given that for me, Hazard was the ‘best’ player in the league for four out of five seasons (14/15, 16/17, 17/18, 18/19), but I understand why people might make that case.

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@GBNEWS For the life of me, I cannot understand why English football doesn't just change the gesture. I'm about 99% fans would all back it. There's been a gross misdiagnosis of why people boo the knee, and I'm sorry, more knee-taking isn't the way to stop the booing.

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@HaytersTV Tottenham aren't some underperforming titan in disarray like Man Utd, they're a well-run club with good players who, generally speaking, have overperformed in the last decade. Mauricio Pochettino worked wonders with players Mourinho, Conte and Postecoglou would have (or in some

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@David_Ornstein @TheAthleticFC Concerns about Ruben Amorim are understandable but seeing him bumped for Phil Jones and Farhad Moshiri is a surprise to say the least.

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