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Lead Consultant on Content for @LiveWireSport part of @TwoCirclesSport group. Ex-Head of Social for @btsport and @Squawka Views are all my own etc.

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James McManus
4 years
Here's Rory Delap about to throw his one-year-old son into the Stoke box back in 2004.
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Squawka
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17-year-old Liam Delap is the first player born in 2003 to play a competitive game for Manchester City. And, yes, he's the son of Rory.
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Ronnie O'Sullivan stacking it playing VR pool when he goes to lean on a table that isn't there 😂
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"I once watched Tottenham be dumped out of the Europa League 3-0 by a team whose manager was sent to prison just 3 days before the game."
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8 years
PSG completed just FOUR passes between the 85th minute and full-time. THREE of those were from kick-off after conceding Barcelona goals.
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2 years
We're now on week 3 of everyone pretending Bruno Fernandes assaulted a referee
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SPORTbible
2 years
One was a red card. One didn't receive a card. 🤔
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9 months
Without a doubt
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Kristi Yamaguccimane
9 months
what’s the worst tweet you’ve ever seen
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4 years
"I once created a European Super League but screwed up the launch so badly it collapsed within 2 days after all 12 teams withdrew from it."
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2 years
These two anecdotes side by side is 👌
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The Guardian
2 years
Richard Madeley: ‘I couldn’t care less about the Alan Partridge comparisons’
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4 years
Football is all about opinions. But someone actually voted for Jonny Evans to win FWA Footballer of the Year. They really did that.
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3 years
Buzzing #EURO2020
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4 months
Please let that be the end of Kyle Walker at right back for England, out of position for both Spain goals, awful all tournament, can't cross And you've got Trent right there
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4 months
Southgate naming Trippier to the starting XI again
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4 years
Ah look, Thiago looks very good again when he has Fabinho next to him to tackle. Almost like that's the role he was signed for.
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5 years
Real Madrid have their worst season in over a decade and sack two managers...three players in the XI Liverpool win their first UCL in 14 years....two players in the XI Footballers don't watch football do they?
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Football on TNT Sports
5 years
🇧🇷 Alisson 🇪🇸 Ramos 🇳🇱 De Ligt 🇳🇱 Van Dijk 🇧🇷 Marcelo 🇭🇷 Modrić 🇧🇪 Hazard 🇳🇱 De Jong 🇦🇷 Messi 🇵🇹 Ronaldo 🇫🇷 Mbappé #TheBest FIFA Men's XI has been confirmed! #FIFAFootballAwards
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James McManus
3 years
Everton selling Lucas Digne because he's fallen out with Rafa Benitez and then sacking Rafa three days later is high performance art.
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2 years
So we've had Johnson's sister and dad on BBC and ITV in the last 12 hrs touting his return as Prime Minister. Never let it be said that the media doesn't create the narratives it wants to cover. They're speaking this one into existence.
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Good Morning Britain
2 years
'I think he's on a plane.' Boris Johnson's dad Stanley Johnson reacts to the reports that Boris is attempting to make a comeback. He tells @adilray and @kategarraway that he can't say if Boris is coming back early.
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3 years
Waiter: "Would you like another bottle?" My mum out with her friends on a Friday night: "Oooo....shall we? " #Eurovision
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4 years
Garth Crooks' Team of the Week. On Salah: "That was no foul... not to spoil it with cheap nonsense like diving." On Wilson: "Wilson's craftiness to draw a penalty from Everton's Andre Gomes was astute." 🤡
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3 years
"a joint man of the match award?"
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2 years
This is so good because it really just exposes what a failed format interviewing politicians on TV is. If the interviewer, interviewee and audience all know what's being said is a lie, why bother analysing the lie as 'serious' content?
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Big fan of @joelycett refusing to take an unserious person seriously
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2 years
Only England can somehow contrive to leave Phil Foden out of their XI at a major tournament
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3 years
Confirmed: The best football photo of 2021. No debate. It's over.
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James McManus
3 years
Jude Bellingham is the closest we've had to Steven Gerrard since his peak as an all-round midfielder. Just a ridiculous player. Does the lot. What stands out most is he's Dortmund's talisman at 18 years old.
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7 years
Kyle Walker becoming the most expensive defender ever (£50m) on the same day Leonardo Bonucci is joining AC Milan sums up the Premier League
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3 years
#GBNews looks hilariously budget Also why is it being broadcast from inside a giant PS4?
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2 years
@JayMotty One-off buys Liverpool and City are level, but in terms of squad players and their wages it is a different level City's 4th choice CB cost £50m, Liverpool got theirs from Charlton. City can buy Kalvin Phillips and Jack Grealish for £150m and they don't make a dent in their XI
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4 years
It's been said but this is a dreadful move by Leeds with this tweet. Inviting the worst kind of pile on. It's also pretty small-time. You've just won 5-0, focus on that.
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2 years
51 years ago today the world first saw the GREATEST transition ever in film Don Corleone's moustache turning into a tree This is art
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All The Right Movies
2 years
THE GODFATHER was released 51 years today. A landmark of American cinema, there's some interesting facts around the making of the film... A THREAD 1/24
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If you need a reminder of how the right wing press operates, don't forget when the Spectator wanted to run a hit piece on him all because he cares about schoolchildren having the temerity to eat a meal. Now it's because he owns a car.
@MarcusRashford
Marcus Rashford
3 years
Just heard @spectator are planning to run a story on me tomorrow about how I have benefitted commercially in the last 18 months…To clarify, I don’t need to partner with brands. I partner because I want to progress the work I do off the pitch and…(1)
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2 years
It's amazing Richard Madeley is still on TV in 2022. Here he admits that the rail strikes don't interrupt Christmas but some event he's created called 'commercial Christmas' instead. Sorry little Timmy, there will be no commercial Christmas this year, just actual Christmas.
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Good Morning Britain
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'Will you answer the question Mr Lynch, I won't let you get away with nonsense' @richardm56 grills the General Secretary of the RMT, Mick Lynch over striking over the Christmas period
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3 years
Protect Rashford, Sancho and Saka at all costs. They are 23 years old, 21 years old and 19 years old. They are our future. Back them now. #Euro2020Final
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4 years
Buzzing for all the terrible fake Lionel Messi signing stunts by League Two clubs over the next week. Going to be really funny 👍
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James McManus
5 years
2015/16: Georginio Wijnaldum relegated with Newcastle 2015/16: Moussa Sissoko relegated with Newcastle 2015/16: Andy Robertson playing in the Championship at Hull 2015/16: Xherdan Shaqiri playing for mid-table Stoke Three seasons later they are all involved in the UCL final 😮
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8 years
Last time Real Madrid played Bayern in Europe: 1⃣️. Xabi Alonso was at Real 2⃣️. Toni Kroos was at Bayern 3⃣️. Carlo Ancelotti managed Real
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James McManus
8 years
Most Champions League assists 2015/16: Sanchez, Coman (5) 2014/15: Iniesta, Messi (5) 2013/14: Di Maria, Benzema (5) Neymar already has 8!
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3 years
That feeling when you know it's coming home 👏 #ENGGER
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3 years
Look at Shaq 😂😂😂 #FuryWilder3
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James McManus
3 years
Alisson Becker has scored the same number of goals away from home in the Premier League this season (1) as Anthony Martial (also 1). And send tweet.
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James McManus
6 years
Romelu Lukaku consoling the #JPN players at the end of the game was a great show of sportsmanship Did the exact same to 18 year-old Benfica goalkeeper Mile Svilar in the Champions League back in October after he dropped a huge clanger Good egg 👏
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James McManus
9 years
James Milner created more chances than Juan Mata this season, recorded more assists than Mesut Ozil & scored more goals than Cesc Fabregas.
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@JonnyGabriel @FootballManager Rough century for Rangers
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James McManus
8 years
Sergio Aguero has scored vs. this season: Burnley Gladbach Middlesbrough Sunderland Steaua Bucharest Stoke Swansea WBA No huge side there
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James McManus
7 years
Really pleased with the Van Dijk signing. 1. It's not my money 2. He's exactly what Liverpool need at the back
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6 years
Cristiano Ronaldo has more Champions League HAT-TRICKS (8) than Gabriel Batistuta and Dennis Bergkamp have Champions League goals total (7). WTF 🤯
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7 years
Liverpool have gone from Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah to Gelson Martins and an apology in 24 hours Solid start to the transfer window👌
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James McManus
8 years
I don't even know how you do this. Four passes in 9 minutes! Have PSG never tried to time waste on FIFA before or something?
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James McManus
7 years
Ajax general manager Edwin van der Sar has just sacked Dennis Bergkamp as Ajax assistant manager. Nice to see the Man Utd-Arsenal rivalry is alive and well still.
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James McManus
6 years
Van Dijk has got a job on his hands here
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James McManus
2 years
@Joshstrangehill That's a paddlin'
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2 years
No bias.... Here's the Prime Minister's dad
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2 years
Fabrizio Romano's graphic designer this morning
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James McManus
4 years
This is exactly the same move Coleen Rooney pulled to find out it was Rebekah Vardy.
@christopherhope
Christopher Hope📝
4 years
EXCLUSIVE Number 10 could give differently worded briefings to ministers in ‘canary trap’ strategy to find Cabinet lockdown leaker
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4 years
Florentino Perez spent over £160m on Eden Hazard & Luka Jovic in 2019 - Jovic is already out on loan elsewhere. Andrea Agnelli spent £105.3m on a 33-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo in 2018. If both clubs are skint it's because they are badly run. Nothing to do with the pandemic.
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4 years
The best example of how terribly mismanaged Barcelona are as a club is spending £140m on Phillipe Coutinho and him assisting the sixth goal and scoring the seventh for the opposition WHILE ON LOAN FROM THEM in a Champions League quarter-final Worst run big club in the world
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3 years
'Please my commercial property portfolio is dying'
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James McManus
8 years
Man City fans booing Milner is ridiculous, he left to play regularly Liverpool fans booing Sterling is ridiculous, he just got a better job
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James McManus
2 years
Jesus never seen Kyle Walker rinsed for pace like that
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James McManus
8 years
Gerard Pique's heat map vs. PSG is madness. Makes him look like a box-to-box midfielder. Via @Squawka
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3 years
Thank you for huge promotion(s), Indy
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James McManus
3 years
Given the exciting, young talent at Arsenal - Saka, Smith-Rowe, Martinelli, Gabriel, Tierney - takes some doing to suck all the joy out of that squad for a fan.
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2 years
Just going to leave these two here
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@GraceOnFootball
Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️
2 years
Thinking about the many, many, many people with serious jobs who convinced themselves Sunak was a moderate because he wears smart suits and talks like a member of the establishment.
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2 years
This is football heritage
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2 years
So glad we didn't start Foden and Trent, our two most creative players, so we could all enjoy that true English pastime together, needless suffering.
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2 years
@JayMotty Daily Mail reporters when asked if they can write up a ridiculous take about any Premier League footballer for clickbait
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James McManus
8 years
John Carew still has more Champions League goals (18) than Gonzalo Higuain (17).
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James McManus
5 years
Did I really just witness #VictoriaDerbyshire call him Jeremy C**t? Yes....yes I did. The close up 😬😆
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James McManus
3 years
Weird, I can't find Piers Morgan's tweet on Ben Stokes withdrawing from sport to look after his mental health anywhere
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James McManus
3 years
Allan was really just out there running a 10k
@ReviewFootball
ReviewFootball
3 years
Everton midfielder Allan played 73 minutes against Liverpool. He completed two passes - both via kick-offs. #LFC #LIVEVE #EFC
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James McManus
7 years
Hard to sum up what @Squawka going out of business means, but here it goes...
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James McManus
2 years
Must say I'm really enjoying how Jamie Oliver has united the entire country against himself.
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James McManus
4 years
Seriously don't ever vote again if you voted for this guy. It's not for you.
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4 years
I see no lies.
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@JayMotty Genuinely forgot he played for Newcastle
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James McManus
8 years
Serge Aurier's last month: 28th Aug: Own goal vs Monaco 23rd Sep: Sent off vs Toulouse 26th Sep: Handed 2-month suspended prison sentence
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James McManus
4 years
Florentino Perez at the innagural Super League board of directors meeting on Friday.
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James McManus
2 years
They were right.
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@BCFC_News
Birmingham City News
4 years
Birmingham City will retire the number 22 shirt following Jude Bellingham's transfer to Borussia Dortmund. 💙
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2 years
Why can't a 39 year-old run a marathon quickly? I don't understand. This feels quite a standard time for a fit ex-pro athlete Eliud Kipchoge is 38 years old Kenenisa Bekele is 40 years old He's running, he's not playing 90 mins against Ajax.
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James McManus
2 years
@LM79795672 @JayMotty I dunno, seems very subjective. All I know is City can afford a few big transfers to fail and Liverpool can't.
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10 years
Go on Van Gaal, coach that -
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8 years
James Milner created more chances than Juan Mata this term, made more assists than Mesut Ozil & scored more goals than Cesc Fabregas Again.
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James McManus
7 years
Wednesday night in the Premier League... David Moyes' West Ham vs Sam Allardyce's Everton.
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James McManus
5 years
Ruben Neves is the best player outside the Premier League top six
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James McManus
4 years
Looks like he's wrestling Cactus Jack at Wrestlemania soon. This is so, so nuts.
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James McManus
4 years
Bayern Munich 8-2 Barcelona Man Utd 8-2 Arsenal Germany 7-1 Brazil You don't forget these results. They live forever. They scar.
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2 years
@Millar_Colin Can you imagine the sheer outrage if they ever tried this in England?
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James McManus
3 years
Jason Cundy watching this excellent Villarreal performance
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James McManus
2 years
Is it just me or has the Champions League been quite rubbish this season? No memorable games or notable comebacks. No huge upsets. All feels quite forgettable, like the World Cup used up all our energy.
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Rate Sturridge as a pundit so far
@SkySportsPL
Sky Sports Premier League
2 years
Is Romelu Lukaku the answer? 👀 Daniel Sturridge breaks down Chelsea's struggles in front of goal... 🔎
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James McManus
3 years
This aged well
@piersmorgan
Piers Morgan
3 years
McEnroe told the truth. Ms Raducuna’s a talented player but couldn’t handle the pressure & quit when she was losing badly. Not ‘brave’, just a shame. If I were her, I’d tell my fans to stop abusing McEnroe, & seek his advice on how to toughen up & become a champion like he was.
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James McManus
4 years
That is not a review of Jordan Henderson's performance, sir.
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James McManus
2 years
@simonhfootball Can't believe I'm defending Bruno Fernandes but just lightly moving the lino out of the way is a heinous crime to some
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James McManus
4 years
Atalanta 1-0 JUVENTUS Leeds 1-1 LIVERPOOL ARSENAL 1-1 Fulham Everton 2-2 TOTTENHAM Getafe 0-0 REAL MADRID Napoli 1-1 INTER MILAN Six of the 12 teams in the proposed European Super League didn't win their last league game over the last three days.
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James McManus
4 years
Hang this in the Louvre immediately
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Kevin Finnerty
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James McManus
9 years
Just lost in a world of Tim Sherwood vines now.
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James McManus
4 months
The reason Martin Keown can't stop going on about Cristiano Ronaldo on commentary for this game is because Cristiano Ronaldo is the only player out there he's heard of before
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