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Host of True Faith Newcastle United Podcast @tfnufc Support the pod here:

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Alex Hurst
3 years
Appreciate this is not a new take but the London stadium is the worst place to watch football in the country by some distance
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Points in the Premier League since Eddie Howe was appointed at #nufc Everton - 5 Watford - 5 Burnley - 6 NUFC - 13
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2 years
Got sent this brilliant video by @drsamhoward of the turn around in #nufc fortunes this season Features me a little bit but mostly @raisbeck10
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2 years
Central station locked and closed for business completely today, and yet….
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3 years
Krafth v Zaha was always going to be hard against one of the league’s best but credit to Wilfried he kept going and stayed on until the very end of the game
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9 months
£3m and signed almost six years ago. Thank you @rafabenitezweb
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2 years
Remember when they re-write this or describe it as sports-washing that we were 14th when this happened. Fourteenth.
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3 years
Last night it was just fans, players, coaching staff, owners all on the same page all working for each other Despite being bottom of the league - I feel more connected to the club than any period in the last 15 years
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3 years
Went to Chelsea without 6 first team players. Had the better chances, had a player assaulted, had a cast iron penalty ignored Howe has done a brilliant job and they get better every week It’s frustrating but hard to beat Chelsea away, the referee and VAR
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2 years
Game was over from this moment. Leicester weren’t beating this
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2 years
Fucking brilliant point. Fucking brilliant defensive performance. Arteta can fuck off as well. We’re class
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2 years
This is the picture for me. They were mocked and kept doing it anyway. It’s unique to them and this club. So proud of them and everyone there tonight.
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1 year
Miguel Almiron tonight with one of great non-goal scoring performances at SJP
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4 years
Bruce has had more Premier League games at #nufc than Dalglish Gullit Souness Roeder Allardyce Hughton McClaren He’s been given a fair whack at this. We know what he can do as manager and has been given a chance to show it. It’s time for a change. He needs to go
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11 months
One thing to take from tonight Howe and the team’s grace post game. No hysteria. No abuse of the officials. Proud of them. Hard to think other managers we’ve faced recently wouldn’t have been as reserved and respectful.
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2 years
Result of season. Performance of the season. One of the best away performances I’ve ever seen. Get the fuck in. We are class. Absolutely class.
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2 years
Seven points from three games in a week including two of the top six away from home. Yet six players started today who were here pre-takeover. Eddie Howe is the best manager in the league
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3 years
When Newcastle United drew with Watford on Jan 15th we were 13 points off Brentford and 7 behind both Leeds and Everton who had both played a game less. Just five games later we sit above all three now having played two games less than Brentford and a game less than Leeds
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3 years
Eddie Howe bringing the lads back in to train today Easy thing for him to do would be to self-congratulate. Instead it’s back to work to demand improvements from his squad and work on fitness. Absolutely love the bloke
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3 years
Newcastle United are staying up aren’t they?
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4 years
Richard Masters dismissed Amanda Staveley’s accusations to @nufctrust that @LFC & Spurs tried to influence the @premierleague board to block the #NUFCTakeover Yet these clubs have put together a plan to have this influence on ALL PL takeovers Time to look again @premierleague ?
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3 years
No better place to watch football in England right now than St James’ Park for atmosphere Don’t think there’s a more popular set of owners, coaching staff or players in England right now than at Newcastle United
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1 year
The goal will get try attention but that performance from Fabian Schar is an all timer. Remember they didn’t want him. Thought he wasn’t up to it. Can’t play in a back 4 etc He’s a fucking incredible footballer
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1 year
Sociedad had their pants pulled down not getting more than £60m for the world’s best footballer, Alexander Isak
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2 years
Nick Pope for £10m is absurd
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2 years
Botman again today. Imperious. It’s every game. He’s now up there with Bruno for asking ‘what the fuck were other top PL clubs playing at?’ £32m for him. What’s going on out there. It doesn’t make sense
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3 years
Really grateful that I’m alive to witness what has to be worst ever period in Sunderland’s history #thankyou
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11 months
Kieran Trippier is one of the best footballers I’ve ever seen live. Every. Single. Week. Bad night tonight. He and we will be back
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3 years
Getting a first team player from a key rival is a very non #nufc way to behave Absolutely more of this please
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3 years
Fabian Schar was unbelievable. It shouldn’t be him who drops out of the team when we buy another CB
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3 years
Brazilian international Bruno Guimaraes signing for #nufc for over £30m in the January window Didn’t envisage writing those words as we traipsed out of Molineux in the pissing rain on October 2nd
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1 year
You’re six nil down at home and on comes Alexander Isak
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4 years
Starting to think hiring the recently sacked by a Championship side, relegated last time out in the Premier League, tactically disinterested, thin skinned, reviled by fans of any big club he’s managed at Steve Bruce may have been a bad idea
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3 years
Remember when Mikel Arteta said Steve Bruce was one of the most important managers of the last century That was mad
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2 years
Dubravka - a lad on loan from the Czech league who was crucial to us staying in the league 2018-21 when we were in danger of dropping out He’s off to maybe play Champions League football. I’ll be forever grateful to him. He was never going to get the #1 back at #nufc
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3 years
Totally forgot that the fans, players and new owners at #nufc are all wrong and the people who don’t watch the team play are correct that Bruce did a great job failing to win in 9 this season and leaving the team in 19th with the worst defensive record in the league Sorry!
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3 years
Thought Newcastle United were better than Everton all over the pitch tonight. Deserved win, brilliant atmosphere and we are staying up
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4 years
Sick of watching #nufc and being impressed by the opposition. Sick of Steve Bruce. If he genuinely cared about the club he’d resign.
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4 years
5 Live have kindly invited me on tonight to their Monday night club with Mark Chapman, Micah Richards and Chris Sutton to talk about #nufc I’ll do me best to represent the strength of fan feeling on the current mess at United and the feeling that the manager needs to go
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3 years
Cracking chat with @GNev2 & @Carra23 ahead of the match tonight for sky representing @tfNUFC & @nufctrust Should be out pre match 19.15
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4 years
My increasingly fraught relationship with Newcastle United
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2 years
Newcastle United have played six of the other seven top sides in this league away from home and lost once
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3 years
Newcastle United are far more likely to beat Watford and Leeds with Chris Wood in the team Excellent signing
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Alex Hurst
4 years
The idea that PL clubs NEED to implement PPV bc of economic needs would carry more weight if they hadn’t just spent 1 billion+ on players, furloughed staff, received gov loans, weren’t charging fans for games they aren’t going to and hadn’t just made thousands of staff redundant
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3 years
Advertising signage is coming down at a football stadium and there's collective outpouring of relief and joy Might not make sense to others but you need to have lived the 14 years of what the signage symbolised and what that did to #nufc and the city It's a good day
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3 years
Jamal Lewis by the way. Unbelievable. He should have played 50 games for us by now
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2 years
I’ve seen some good footballers play at St James’ Park for Newcastle United but can’t think of one who is so much better than every other player on the pitch like Bruno Guimarães is
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3 years
Yesterday Bruce’s #NUFC side conceded four goals at home for the third time inside 12 months Before he took over we hadn’t conceded 4 goals in a home league match for 6 years
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3 years
Fabian Schär new contract ASAP pls @NUFC
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Alex Hurst
2 years
The national written press for months before and after the takeover said Staveley & Ghodoussi didn’t know what they were doing. That they were playing ‘football manager’ and were desperate to run the club Dunno if a group of writers have ever been more wrong about anything ever
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3 years
Bottom of the league but positives for #nufc ✅ Jonjo was very good and looks like the player Howe wants him to be ✅ There’ll be an upgrade in goal immediately ✅ Joelinton excellent. Looks like he’ll be an asset under Howe ✅ ASM back on the wing and looking lethal
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3 years
Can’t think of a better singing for #nufc ever than Dan Burn. Dominant at the back and 10 Points from 12 since he signed. Ridiculous numbers and performances Thank you Brighton
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Alex Hurst
4 years
I’ll ask the same question I’ve asked many times under Bruce Is the plan to let the opposition have all of the ball, all of the territory and as many shots on goal as they like? And if it isn’t the plan - why does it keep happening?
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9 months
Considering the disastrous away form, the injuries, the bad luck, four straight league defeats and Villa’s near 12 month unbeaten home record - this is the best #nufc away win in a decade and probably much more
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3 years
The takeover and change of manager was probably career saving for Joelinton. That’s how bad the last bloke was at managing talented, hardworking players
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Brighton had only lost two away all season. Southampton had only lost one at home all season. Until they came up against Eddie Howe’s #nufc What a week
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3 years
Complete dominance from #nufc there despite making four changes Eddie Howe. I can’t describe the job he’s done. Against all odds
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It’s just nice to see so many good people so happy. We deserve this #nufc
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3 years
As a legacy fan I really enjoyed the end of that and would like to thank John Henry and Joel Glazer for allowing #nufc to take part in their game
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3 years
I made the payment today to the @nufcfoodbank for our @tfNUFC live event £2,659.30 was raised by those #nufc fans who attended @ghodoussi and Amanda Staveley have matched that donation themselves bringing the total to £5,318.60 🙌🏻 Thank you so much Mehrdad and Amanda ⚫️⚪️
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3 years
Maybe it's just because my timeline is full of lovely people but I'm seeing absolutely no resistance to Howe at all. Everyone will be behind him and we'll stay up
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Amanda Staveley Doubted by many, ridiculed by Ashley in 2017, defamed at times in the media yet never gave up on #nufc Four years is a long time to fight for anything, especially in the public eye We should be so grateful to her and her consortium for never giving in
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No one has ever been as wrong as anything as I was about Joelinton
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Poetry. 😍
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More statements than big chances created from Arsenal this weekend
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4 years
One good signing for #nufc would be Jetro Willems. A real spark in a mostly dour season. Bring him home
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3 years
Dream February for Newcastle United. Four games and ten points. Season defining.
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Imagine being as good as Tino Livramento and not being able to get a game most weeks. Kid is sensational
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3 years
Some Steve Bruce classics for his final act No striker on at the end Joelinton got 90 mins Ryan Fraser playing holding midfield Any one of these three would be nuts but only man could pull off all three and he’s gone and done it again #nufc #bruceout
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1 year
Absolutely smashed PSG at home. It wasn’t close. Because we’re class.
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2 years
Newcastle could have spent £60m on a right winger this summer and that player likely would not have the goals Miggy Almiron has for us this season
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2 years
As we close in on £200m spend since January, this happened less than a year ago.
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🗞️ Hamza Choudhury 'wants to come' to #NUFC but Magpies 'won't pay loan fee'
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1 year
Yet again another ‘top’ side leaves St James’ lucky to lose by what they did. It could have been ten.
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10 months
Don’t think there’s been a funnier win. Their heads fell off before we turned up. Then the smallest team I’ve ever seen thought they’d kick us off the pitch. Then their manager continued to try and play out from the back Perfect
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2 years
Has there ever been a worse managerial performance in modern football than taking over 5th place West Brom and saying you’d get them promoted, then leave them in the relegation zone the following season? Removing the emotion and #nufc connection, I can’t think of a worse job
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3 years
Well that was absolutely fucking class Nought like watching Newcastle United win away from home
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. @SkySportsPL are championing fans all of a sudden? For years @nufctrust has made representations to the @premierleague & Sky about #nufc fans being consistently shit on by both - being selected for 14 consecutive Monday night games away from home We've been ignored each time
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2 years
Willock and Isak today. Took us to a different level in attack
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3 years
#nufc barely give away a chance these days let alone concede goals. One goal conceded in the last three games and that was as an OG. Howe and Tindall have done unbelievably well to organise the defence
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2 years
What a performance. What a result. What a team. What a season
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1 year
What a difference this man makes to my team and therefore my life
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3 years
Everton, Spurs and Wolves all need new managers #nufc finished one place above one of those sides and two places behind another So if you think Steve Bruce has done a brilliant job at a ‘difficult club’ why isn’t he being linked with any of those jobs? Serious question
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4 years
ASM won it for us but Dubravka kept us in it. Two massive players for us doing it when it matters most - that’s what sets them apart from other players Still thought we were mostly dreadful today but results matters more than performances when you’re 17th Great win
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3 months
First thought on Staveley leaving is she is owed a debt of gratitude for never giving up on #nufc when many would have. Not only did she get the takeover done despite numerous setbacks, but she was crucial in the dramatic rebuild in 2022 where the team hardly lost a game
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6 months
Thought that was the complete performance today. Howe’s tactics perfect. Best win of the season. They all deserve praise but Elliot Anderson has transformed us in midfield
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Alex Hurst
3 years
Thing about the pen - the ref gives a corner so assumes the Chelsea defender has got the ball The lad doesn’t get the ball - VAR can see that the defender doesn’t get the ball - so it should be a pen (This is ignoring the shirt pulling - which also makes it a definite pen)
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1 year
Lascelles and Dummet were playing for us 7 years ago man. Sensational tonight
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2 years
Murphy came on yesterday and improved us. Set up three really good opportunities and hit the post. He’s been much criticised (including by me) but the Eddie Howe effect seems to be taking hold. He was class and he was the right sub yesterday to turn the screw further
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1 year
Six first team players injured, eight changes made from the weekend and they still couldn’t give us a fucking game
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3 years
Just remembered that Mike Dean gave a foul AGAINST Matt Targett today as he was deliberately stamped on for the Brentford sending off
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Alex Hurst
3 years
Team will win the Premier League and there won’t be the scenes in those grounds like there were at the end the there at SJP #nufc
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2 years
The job Eddie Howe has done is all the more remarkable because he’s done it predominantly without Callum Wilson, who is absolutely class
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Alex Hurst
3 years
It’s not just our best lads who are thriving under Howe. Players like Emil Krafth, Manquillo, Schar and Fraser look unrecognisable from before he came in. Once again players getting better and better training with the manager. It’s class.
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3 years
@NUFC Didn’t ever see Mike Ashley’s #nufc making erection jokes. We got our club back.
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3 years
‘I dropped two defenders and selected midfielder Isaac Hayden to play centre back vs Cristiano Ronaldo on his return to Old Trafford…..only for Hayden to tell me three days later in a team meeting he is in fact not a defender’
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1 year
Fabian Schar though - got to be up there with one of the best we’ve seen now at CB. It’s 8/9 out of 10 every single week
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3 years
This city is alive #nufc
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Alex Hurst
4 years
Pathetic, again. We’ve gone to a promoted side who’ve won three games all season and played for a point. No strikers played from the start. The formation is a joke. If you can’t go to the 19th place side and win, who are you going to beat?
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3 years
Sunderland AND Aston Villa fans were told they were wrong about Steve Bruce and they hounded him out Now it's #nufc fans 'Good manager' sacked from 3 of his last 4 jobs in the last ten years when hugely unpopular with fans. Why Simon? Why does this keep happening to Bruce?
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3 years
A good man and good manager hounded by fans from Day One.
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Alex Hurst
4 years
Remember the ‘Rafa is greedy he wants a pay rise’ campaign orchestrated by radio stations? Could have paid that £6.5m to Rafa over two seasons and he’d still be here now, we wouldn’t be going down and Ashley’s saleable asset would probably be worth £50m more. The fool.
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Savour these days. These atmospheres, these wins and these moments before, during and after the games It’s the best it’s been for two decades and it will get much better yet
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