MIKE WALTERS
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Bitter and twisted, slightly zany Marxist tycoon and @DailyMirror sports writer. My views etc
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Well done
@ECB_cricket
- you clear the calendar month of August for a form of cricket no other nation plays, relegate your 50-over tournament to a reserve cup… and 6 weeks later, as World Cup holders, your 50-over team is embarrassed by Afghanistan. Not surprised, just appalled.
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They were better than us second half.
Good.
Remember Rotterdam 1993?
How does it feel to be robbed, Koeman?
That one’s for Graham Taylor
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Bolton, Coventry on brink of catastrophe.
Black players still getting racist abuse in 21st century.
Potential links between dementia and football grow stronger but research still woefully finite.
And agents get £260 million from Prem League clubs in a single year.
Yuck.
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Wonder what Dixie Dean's descendants think of all this nonsense about Harry Kane's 'records' dating back to 1992... If you know your history, try 85 goals in a calendar year (1928)
#Everton
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Every Australian - no, make that just plain everyone - should read the great
@GregBaum
here. No applause necessary, just admiration
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This is absolutely glorious. Best thing you'll see anywhere on the net. Welcome to the world in colour, William.
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Not a
@QPR
fan but how can anyone question the values of a club who staged the Game for Grenfell and who play at the Kiyan Prince Foundation stadium? Looks like a proper club to me...
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Watford Football Club helped out the hospital next door in the Covid-19 crisis for 8 weeks:
More than 1,000 hot meals served to NHS staff every day.
18 executive boxes converted into sleeping pods.
More than 20,000 scrubs washed in the club laundry.
Well played,
@WatfordFC
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Sorry, but Pogba is the first player
#MUFC
should sell this summer - no player is bigger than United, says
@RobbieSavage8
@MirrorFootball
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Would
@LFC
season be a failure if they don't win a trophy? You're having a laugh, says
@RobbieSavage8
- we should celebrate their flair
@MirrorFootball
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Real football fans support unequivocally
@Wolves
proposal to scrap VAR, the worst blight on football since hooliganism. The game's been hijacked by jobsworths hiding in a bunker. Every neutral knows who's been shafted most by VAR this season: They play in old gold
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No wonder the big six don't want
#FACup
replays against the small fry - they can't handle their passion once, let alone twice. Thank you
@Coventry_City
for letting us dare to dream
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Premier League won't let West Ham move game v Saints forward a couple of hours so fans can make it to Wembley for women's FA Cup final later on because of "potential inconvenience" to supporters.
Manchester City v Leiecster? Moved to Monday night, just like that.
Farcical.
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My chum
@DaveClarkTV
will always be a hero to families visited by the insidious nightmare of Parkinson's
@MirrorSport
@DailyMirror
@ParkinsonsUK
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@piersmorgan
Why sneer? When a million people marched against the Iraq war, which our democratically elected government prescribed for the nation, you were with them. And it was the best thing you did as an editor.
When Brexit goes tits up, will you still turn left when boarding the plane?
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Get well soon
#PhilHughes
- 137 years of Ashes rivalry means nothing when a cricketer's life is at stake. Every Englishman is with you
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Maximum respect
@MerthyrTownFC
- you may have lost 13-1
@cheshamutdfc
but at least you turned up, and the whole ground celebrated your goal at 13-0 down. Special mention for 15-year-old keeper Ed Hewitson - sensational bottle
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Hey
@StanCollymore
- if you can't understand
@WatfordFC
philosophy, let me help. In 140 years they have spent only 14 seasons in top flight... of last eight years they have spent 6 in Premier League, won 2 promotions and reached an FA Cup final. There's your 'proof' it works
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Respect to the 500
@MillwallFC
fans who battled to reach Ewood Park to find a perfectly playable pitch at 3pm - and the game called off 45 mins earlier. Does *ANYONE* in football actually care about the fans any more?
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Klopp at the Double: Liverpool are now favourites for both the title AND Champions League, says
@RobbieSavage8
@MirrorFootball
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For all the
#WatfordFC
'experts' out there carping about another head coach being sacked: In 140 years, Watford have spent only 14 in the top flight - six of those seasons have been since 2015. So don't give me any of this s*** about Pozzo not knowing what he's doing
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To explain: David Warner walking off in protest at being sledged is like a boxer walking out of the ring complaining that his opponent has punched him in the face
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Farewell
@KP24
- let's remember the switch-hit, the flamingo and Babe Ruth, not the shrapnel. My appreciation of a flawed but box-office showman
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So Darren Lehmann presides over a culture of sledging, snarling, excess bravado, macho posturing and at least one instance of ball tampering... and keeps his job? I'll have a pint of whatever he's on
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Dear
@WatfordFC
players, that was an insult to the memory of Graham Taylor. You should be ashamed
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Marcelo Bielsa's homework is so thorough
#LUFC
should be given extra points, not deducted any
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RIP Oli Phillips, doyen of the
@WatfordFC
Press box and the man who chronicled 40 years of Hornets history in the
@Observer_Owl
- if Oli wrote it, you knew it was true. Not many of us can claim a whole town as their friend, but Watford has lost a legend. Farewell and thanks, Oli
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This man
@DaveClarkTV
is a legend - see today's
@DailyMirror
for inspiration in the fight against an insidious enemy
@OfficialPDC
@ParkinsonsUK
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Strange but true: Newport County’s goalkeeper has scored more league goals than Liverpool in 2021
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Cards on table: Peter Drury is a mate, but this is unscripted commentary of the very highest quality
Football at its dramatic best. Commentary at its very best 🙌🙌🙌
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People aren’t dying because junior doctors are on strike. Junior doctors are on strike because people are dying.
@SteveBarclay
doesn’t care about saving the NHS - he wants to fillet it, gut it and sell it off to private enterprise, that’s why junior docs are being offered peanuts
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@iSOLACIUM
@MirrorFootball
Normal people don't usually play left-back for England at the World Cup. Show us your caps if you know better
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Well done
@Wolves
- players 100 per cent jabbed and boosted, no squealing. Setting the right example for football and all those who claim to love it
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Before any more uninformed knee-jerkers on here accuse
@WatfordFC
of trying to get the season cancelled (wrong), try checking out how much they have done to help the NHS and hospital next door. And since when has honesty, in the face of a deadly plague, been "cowardice"?
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Finally, some good news from
@WatfordFC
- favourite son
@LBliss8
is awarded OBE in Queen’s Platinum Birthday Honours for services to football and charity. Man of the people
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Can’t bat, can’t bowl, can’t field... and can’t believe he is gone. RIP Martin Johnson - aka Scoop - quite simply the funniest cricket writer of my era. Wonderful scribe and author of the greatest one liner about the England team (see above). Thanks for the laughs, Scoop
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@LeeDixon2
No disrespect but WATFORD!!! have beaten Arsenal 3 times in 18 months. Have a good evening 😃
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Classy touch from Javi Gracia to hold a minute's silence before his media briefing
@WatfordFC
in memory of sports reporter
@vikkiorvice
after she passed away on Wednesday. Classy bloke. cc
@IanRidley1
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Who needs a European Super League? We've got the Premier League with the best coaches, players and never-say-die attitude, says
@RobbieSavage8
@MirrorFootball
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Sorry, folks, but WE voted for this crap. WE voted for Brexit. None of this happened before 2016, so don't blame the French. WE voted to get every passport physically stamped when leaving the UK. But of course, it was all 'Project Fear' scaremongering...
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That was
@watfordfc
best win against Everton since they coughed up £4.5m for tapping up Marco Silva
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Listen, you thick dollops: If you boo or jeer your multi-racial national team for taking a knee in support of racial equality, you are booing/jeering racial equality. Whose side are you on? (It’s an easy question for decent people)...
#ENG
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@Duzza180
@JohnMcDonald_MC
@TargetDarts
@UltiWindowsNE
@SMC_Flooring
Three-time world champion, Premier League winner, all-round good bloke. How many of us can say that? Don’t dwell on how it ended, celebrate what happened. All the best, Duzza - top man
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Here she is - star of
@WatfordFC
(with apologies to Claudio Ranieri for the unscripted soundtrack)
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No tears over Richard Scudamore standing down as Premier League chief. On his watch, loyal fans have been shafted like inconvenient accessories instead of cherished as game's lifeblood. And that crackpot 39th game on foreign soil should have been a resignation matter
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UEFA don't like Man City fans booing Champions League anthem while doing diddly-squat to tackle racism? Here is a considered response: BOOOO
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Very harsh that Laurence Bassini can't take over
#BWFC
because he didn't satisfy EFL that he had the necessary resources... he had a shirt with his name on the back, what more did they want?
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To all the
@T_Deeney
haters out there: Since Javi Gracia became
#watfordfc
head coach, that's 3 goals in 5 games, and 10 more points on the board.
#cojones
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Here you go, speedway brethren:
@DailyMirror
tribute to six times world champion Ivan Mauger
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Tottenham win 2-1 but complete travesty.
@OfficialBHAFC
the better side, two goals disallowed by VAR (one of them a dreadful decision), denied at least one penalty, hit the post and played the better football by far
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For Burnley and Watford fans, the last 24 hours feels like a conspiracy
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Dear
#WatfordFC
fans, if you want Pozzo out you are entitled to your opinion. But who’s going to repay the £47 million he’s loaned the club? And since when did Sarr become scapegoat for all the team’s ills? He’s been poor lately but booing him off the bench is shameful
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Please pause for reflection around 3.40pm in memory of 56 football fans who perished in the terrible Bradford City fire 35 years ago today. Nobody should go to a football match and never come home.
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Final word on a ghastly season for
@WatfordFC
- if there was ever any doubt about the value and continuity of
@T_Deeney
influence in the dressing room before, there can be none now
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Mogi Bayat, get out of our club
#WatfordFC
Recruitment in last two years has been diabolical
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The former
@ManUtd
Treble winner now managing his home-town club
@safc
in English football’s sixth tier - today’s
@DailyMirror
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Michael Oliver may be regarded in Turin as the ref who shot Bambi, but it was a brave call and the RIGHT call, says
@RobbieSavage8
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Among
@T_Deeney
legacies after 11 years
@WatfordFC
is that, four years on, it appears he was right all along about Arsenal and their cojones
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@PiersUncensored
@piersmorgan
@Roolockwood
@TalkTV
If you didn’t enjoy the show, that’s your prerogative. But those of us who saw a 76-year-old man reeling off a non-stop catalogue of greatest hits - banger after banger after banger - are not obliged to agree with your average opinion
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If there was any hesitation before, there should be none now: Wake up
@WatfordFC
and let’s have the Luther Blissett Rookery. What more do you need?
@LBliss8
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Lay off Claude Puel - in a season of unspeakable tragedy, Leicester are doing better than average says
@RobbieSavage8
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Last call for this one, but
@LouMacari10
stand against homelessness seems to have struck a chord
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Five years ago today, we lost a man who galvanised a team, built a club and transformed the outlook of a whole town with
@eltonofficial
. He made a stand for decency while most of football accommodated the hooligan scourge. There's only one Graham Taylor
#watfordfc
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Common sense solution: Both Burnley and Watford are out of the FA Cup, so play the twice-postponed Premier League game on 4th round weekend. No excuses, no more faffing about. Just play
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@piersmorgan
@ManUtd
First trophy in six years… you know, two-thirds of the way to nine years without a trophy - which you celebrated by beating the might of Hull City
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Let the children play:
@RobbieSavage8
says it's "nonsense" to keep schools open but ban kids from playing football outdoors
@MirrorFootball
- and I have to agree..
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A year ago today at
#watfordfc
the world stopped turning. Five promotions, FA Cup final, Europe, the original family club. There's only one Graham Taylor
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On what basis are rail fares allowed to go up 3.4% in January while most people's wages (excluding fat cats) barely increase at all? Nothing fleeces us more than privatisation (and corporations dodging billions in tax avoidance)
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Congratulations to Nick Clegg on his knighthood. If he would care to reimburse my son's £27,000 university tuition fees, after shafting an entire generation of students, that would be a start
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Terrible story unfolding in Solihull. Please tell your children: NEVER venture on to frozen lakes - one of the worst things I’ve ever seen is the footprints leading to a break in the ice of a frozen lake where someone died. Hope those rescued today all recover 🙏
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Hey
@GaryLineker
- if Watford sacking Silva is "absurd" after 24 games and 5pts from a possible 33, what do we to make of clubs who fire their manager after 25 games, nine months after he won the title, and a run of 8pts out of 33... Sounds familiar?
#LCFC
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Despicable, beyond belief, that private rail operators are being handed £82m ‘dividends’ from the public purse when fares are pure extortion. Sod the passengers, keep those privatised snouts in the trough. Any chance of sensible fares and reliable service?
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Congratulations
@WatfordFC
- a record 11th consecutive home Premier League. ELEVEN. They should be ashamed of that late collapse - Burnley were as blunt as my rusty garden shears. Shameful dereliction of duty to supporters
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Go ahead - read it and weep,
#watfordfc
fans: My knee-jerk tribute to the great man Graham Taylor
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Capoue got sent off at Leicester 3 years ago for slipping and colliding with opponent. Daley-Campbell, already booked, slips and collides with Watford player… no action taken. Two different sets of rules (yet again)
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Nowhere near enough credit for Javi Gracia, who REFUSED to bleat about
#watfordfc
not being awarded a blatant penalty *before*
@SouthamptonFC
wrongly disallowed goal. "I prefer to support referees, they have a difficult job." Classy.
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#watfordfc
may have tanked last season, but name another football club chairman who has closed
#Glastonbury
in front of about a million people in a cowfield. Elton John is 76 and smashing it
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Save the tackle - it's a dying art and Eric Dier was booked in Spain for executing it perfectly, says
@RobbieSavage8
@MirrorFootball
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Sick of people churning out mantra about
@ECB_cricket
building for the future. We want Ashes back NOW not in 2019. Pick BEST teams NOW
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Not complaining because
#watfordfc
got what they deserved on Friday night, but if
@HKane
on Thiago Silva is a foul, how on earth was Pukki on Samir waved through? The inconsistency drives you barmy
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@CaitlinK124
Four questions for
@WFCOfficial
1. What is Alex Mowatt doing wrong?
2. What the sodding hell does this jobsworth think he's doing?
3. How is a player applauding his own fans a matter of 'elf and safety?
4. Why is the jobsworth on the pitch - which the players' workplace?
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Nothing but admiration for Danny Rose - one of the bravest, most searingly honest interviews I've ever been involved in. Fair play to the bloke
@MirrorFootball
@England
#THFC
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Frank Lampard's time as
#ChelseaFC
manager will come - but lay off Sarri, he's had a good season, says
@RobbieSavage8
@MirrorFootball
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Quick
#WatfordFC
fact check: Yes, it was 31 games between clean sheets (under four head coaches) in the Premier League. But they actually kept 23 (under two coaches) in the Championship last season.
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@stevemag7
@martynware
Do keep up, Steve. New BBC chairman Richard Sharp (appointed January) has donated £400,000 to that well known left-wing think tank, the Conservative Party
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Any
#WatfordFC
fans not satisfied with a point at Man Utd are plastic, entitled Johnny-come-lately dimwits. Today was first point there since 1985, and only the third in history (1984 was the other). Know your history….
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Just when you thought you'd seen the last of him... he's back.
@PhilTaylor
comes out of retirement
@MirrorSport
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@piersmorgan
Tell that to 2,000
@StourbridgeFC
fans heading to Wycombe for their first-ever 3rd round FA Cup tie
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Congrats Jeff Stelling on completing
#JeffsMarch
and raising £300,000 for
@ProstateUK
Men United charity - 260 miles in 10 days, phenomenal
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Whatever you thought of Vinnie Jones as a footballer (or actor), it is desperately sad that he should lose his wife Tanya to cancer at 53... but at the same time we can marvel at medical science which afforded her another 30 years of life after a heart transplant. RIP Tanya
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A reminder of why
@DaveClarkTV
is such a top bloke and an inspiration to everyone diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Keep fighting the good fight mate
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A year ago, Ray Wilkins died. His random acts of kindness (slipping make-up artists at Sky an envelope containing a bundle of notes for their Christmas party, helping a distressed war veteran back on his feet) resonate loud and clear in a mad, bad world
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Splendid, if not actually tremendous, piece on Arsene Wenger from the man who knows him best - No.1 for Arsenal -
@johncrossmirror
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"I've had to re-evaluate my whole life" -
@RobbieSavage8
bares his soul after trauma of witnessing Glenn Hoddle's collapse. Searingly honest account
@MirrorFootball
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