Wally Downes Jr
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A Don King weigh-in is currently half hour late because there is no Don King and no scales.
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This is why
@BarryJonesBox
remains one of the most popular, maverick & highly paid pundits in boxing. The moment he feels he's not getting enough attention & is being used as little more than a human mic stand, he palms it off & gets down the disco. Soup herb.
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Easy to say now but I always knew he was capable of this sort of caper. Just needed the right club to have the bottle to give him a shot. How sublime it was this one, 40 years on from making him first AP. Now, in the words of the Virgin Mary: "I'm going down the pub for a week"
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Matchroom completed a superb week of tributes for Ron Lewis last night. The big man would have been excited by Bowen, worried for Yafai & gutted for Wood - also quietly seething that my ringside sweets contained gluten. He would have raced home to his family on 7:24am train too
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Ellis Zorro earning life-changing money for his daughter is the story of the week.
Whether in Saudi Arabia or Shempton Mallet, in oil-soaked Riyals or copper coins, his bravery has changed her life. That's why boxing - despite all of it's many sins - remains the absolute guvnor
Ellis Zorro shows his first professional belt to his 6-Year-Old daughter Cali after his dramatic KO win last night ❤️
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So, tell me again dad, you were nine points off safety and utterly fucking doomed?
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Asked Eddie why bother with VADA testing if the findings are going to be ignored: "We do VADA testing for almost every fight. Conor wanted it, Eubank Jr wanted it. They both signed up for it. Everyone knows they are being tested."
None the wiser.
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Imagine being of the 163 Dons that braved it tonight. On this run of league form, onnthe back of Burton, in this temperature, after miserable day at work, with a marathon to get home after. Imagine the fucking unbridled joy they could feel
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Sissy slut jack hammered by BBC..
Now you do not jack hammer a sissy, slutty or otherwise, for loving BBC.
If anything they should be rewarded.
They should be equal
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20years at the Times, inundated with freelance work, Ron Lewis still sometimes felt he was a failure. I fucking hate that idea so much. Tell the creator next time you like something -privately, sarcastically -doesn’t matter. Can't keep praising good people only after they're gone
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Kambosos: Ask yourself why I was .36 over, on the day of the weigh-in.
Malcolm: Are you saying you cheated science and faked missing weight so you could lure Devin into a false sense of security?
Kambosos: You’ve got to ask yourself that.
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A great friend of Dad's has just totted up the number of hospitality seats he has bought for friends and family today and said: "fuck me, I could have bought him a full-back for that!"
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Jesus christ, it's my traumatic childhood all over again. He's totally useless at home but the absolute guvnor of playing away! Oodallally
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Ron was a veggie before it was cool & a QPR fan before they were rubbish. He helped all of us younger oiks so selflessly & his talent & knowledge deserved more loyalty. He loved being away with the pack but getting home to his family even more. He will always be admired & missed
I am sorry to announce the death of my husband Ron. He passed away this morning at the age of 54. It was a complete shock. It’s wonderful reading all your messages and memories of him as his phone keep pinging. Thank you everyone who was a part of his life.
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Finally got a nice little squad together for our Dons debut on Saturday. So I warned him: "Whatever you do, after that spawny Wycombe win, do not be making it two on the bounce". Did he listen? Instead the brainbox has started pulling off six-pointer comebacks. That's all we need
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Panic averted. Somebody found the scales, they were tucked away in 1985.
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Always enjoy interviewing Derek Chisora, he makes you work for a good quote & doesn't reel off cliches. You go armed with ideas & research & get your rewards.
So imagine my surprise when he just kicked off our Zoom chat with:
"F****** hell, you've put on some weight, mate"
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Rock bottom of the league and he's got them knocking it around at the back and dinking one in for a cup run. When will he learn?
Antony Hartigan!! Against the run of play, perfect hold up by Appiah to slot it back to Hartigan who just puts it home to the near post.
#AFCW
2-0!
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Hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha fucking hell. If he pulls this off what on earth will he start wearing next? 166 Dons in Rochdale tonight, poxy old trip back eh?
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I could handle liquidation, a final nail in the coffin & a respectful funeral. But actually imagine your childhood football club being stolen, picked up & paraded around my someone else as their own. Desperately sickening. Even the biggest knob deserves his football club
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Hey hey, my my
MTK will never die
It's better to burn out, than it is to fade
And it's clear to see who's still getting paid
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I understand this fight is definitely going ahead - somehow... anyhow - largely based on the huge financial ramifactions a cancellation would have on Eddie's broadcasters DAZN who are getting PPVs & subscricptions. Three alternative licences being considers if BBBofC stand firm.
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I'd love to hear from Jacob Quinn after a fight like that. How much notice he had, what he's been doing for the last two years, did he have work Friday? We rightly salute & celebrate great journeymen when they retire but they get fuck all attention when they're at the coalface
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I'll never complain about the lack of WiFi at York Hall again
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Ron Lewis, like any decent boxing reporter, regularly and rightly held all of the sanctioning bodies to account. But he did it so well and so fairly that the
@WBCBoxing
made a really generous contribution to his memory.
Many thanks
@wbcmoro
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Lucky bastard was 5ft 10in and just under 11st.
At least our dislikes are identical.
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QPR boss Harry Redknapp adopts an unconvincing disguise after Rs suffer an embarrassing FA Cup defeat to Sheff United
http://t.co/SU4DZT8ybk
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The most intense and one-sided 55 seconds of British boxing since Moses Itauma had his first two fights...
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In a 20-minute blur I've eaten a tub of ice cream, drunk half a bottle of rum and booked a weekend trip to Shewsbury without any go-ahead from the enemy upstairs. Football does funny things to you. I fill sick
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Ron Lewis' local church has launched a GoFundMe page to help support his family.
Myself & a few of Ron's colleagues & peers are working on a tribute night for him.
But this is the most immediate & transparent way to help raise funds for Ellie, Stan & Polly
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Get a load of the keeper, he's been there five minutes and you'd think it was Lurch in goal. Soup herb
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Think I've been ringside for every Babic fight and this is the first time I've seen him so utterly exhausted he's resorted to throwing a jab.
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I cannot express how much I have been looking forward to the return of this beard to British boxing... don't even call it a comeback.
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Just to confirm, I'm here in Peterborough and Lewis Ritson landed one punch all night. Utter madness. Great show before that... up in smoke in the way only boxing can do.
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Imagine tuning into boxing for the first time tonight - intrigued by a Sunday show and remembering a Rocky film you might of seen the end of once - Then you see longshot underdog Ardon ping the foot-taller favourite all over the ring & get robbed. Johnny Mingo
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Eddie Hearn confirms Anthony Joshua has now split from Robert Garcia, as well as Rob McCracken, but is already working with another brand new team in the US... and that new team is headed up by??..
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What an unbearable two-legged crock of total shit. The broadcasters & cheerleaders should wear a mask when they deposit their cheques on Monday, bandits the lot of them.
This is brilliant matketing for McDonald's eaters, not boxing, not even sport. It's laughable. Utter gashment
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Imagine losing 6 on the spin, feeling rotten about it & your chairman tells the world an ex-boss has been on with the chat-up lines
#decent
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Gutted I'm not travelling with AFC today. Can't pretent I'm a lifelong fan, I tragically wasted my youth elsewhere. But just image your club was sold for a second. Not beaten or relegated or even vaporised.
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Someone, somewhere, is telling Brit boxers that 'da media' is out to get them, publishing pages & pages against them every day. Sad truth is it's very hard to get boxing in the papers. If I want hours of unedited praise or abuse from one boxing insider to another it's on YouTube
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A genuine thrill being part of big-time boxing's return to Brighton. An historic, student-rich city with great pubs, good restaurants. The Centre is humming nicely before the big Harlem Eubank buzz hits his hometown.
I even met my wife here- that's the only depressing note really
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Very excited to see how billionaire British basketball legend Joe Fournier - & the woman who pulled a fish out of her anus at press conference - do on Saturday to help grassroots boxing. The sport has come through some sticky spots but is thankfully & finally hitting new heights
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Ere, boy, did I ever tell you about the time your grandad helped get us up to the Premier League
#THINGSYOUGETTOSAYAT50
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9pm & our excellent subs desk calls to check if the "p****" quote I filed in a Tyson Fury piece was prick or pussy. Found myself explaining that with Fury it's almost always pussy, rarely, if ever, prick. I thanked them, ended the call & sat back waiting on another SJA nomination
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Nathan Heaney is a lovely man, a Stoke hero, with a heartbreaking tale he has turned into an inspirational success story.
Denzel Bentley is a typical tough-fights-only Peacock boy, doing his community proud.
This is British boxing at its finest, between two fine fellas. Soup herb
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The second David Haye reveals he tore his bicep falling down some stairs at home you have to assume he lives in a bungalow.
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Another good bloke seen off. The next poor sod, after Warnock, gets an irresponsible QPR owner, unbalanced squad & fruitless academy. G'luck
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Poor Uncle Tony, the second he shrewdly stops paying every waif and stray £60k-a-week at QPR they start scrounging about for it elsewhere
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Not really having Karma but when Patsy Bamford dives to ground holding his battered face to get a fellow professional sent off, you sort of know how it's going to end up. The Premier League will not mourn his continuing absence.
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An absolutely superb young man, doing his family immensely proud.
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Years ago I stopped betting on boxing events I was working on because I worried it biased my reporting.
And then an underdog comes out to an Oasis song and I sling every ounce of impartiality out the window.
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Rank hypocrisy at QPR. Fernandes recently deleted tweets criticising fans & Taarabt yet he reprimands his manager & player for similar crime
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Bizarre that Probellum went rapidly from a billion-$$$ budget, star fighters & well known ambassadors & pundits in Dubai, to small-hall shows in Sunderland & then Christmas redundancies
Hope everyone gets back in business ASAP, should have no problem with Probellum atop their CV
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I can handle QPR conceding crucial goals in dying minutes as long as they're comical. Rarely does this side let me down on the giggles front
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Lovely Martin Samuels piece in the Times today about Reg Hayters' ability to turn working-class boys into Fleet Street doyens. Decades later
@strollernick
&
@GerryCox
deserve similar credit for taking unemployable divs like myself &
@DeclanTaylor87
& making us employable divs
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Me: Going to Whitstable next month, beautiful fish restaurant down there that ain't dear cos it's BYO.
@SamMcCluskey2
: Bring your own fish?
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Chris Billam-Smith just punched part of Dylan Bregeon's ear off. Quite literally.
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Definitely a cloud over British boxing lately, I moan about it pathetically like someone who actually has skin in the game.
But in the last few days I've transcribed words from Scotney, Buatsi, Azeez, Wood, Warrington & Harlem Eubank that remind me how good it is. Very good.
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The Shepherds Bush branch of the
@KBFCOfficial
fan club hosting a whip round for
@wal10
dentist bill
#BraceYourself
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I am wandering about the Lanes of Brighton desperately trying to work out where my marriage went wrong, Steve.
And you're on my case about the estimated ringwalk time of an awkward South-London southpaw?
I'm on the edge of an existential abyss, mate.
Help me.
Approx 9:15pm.
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I hate it when boxing-industry insults go too far. Lines are crossed, livelihoods harmed, there's always a
@dominos
effect.
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Ramsey's choice to play Furlong for QPR is so bold & beautiful but can't help thinking Juve & Chile defender Mauricio Isla is more prepared
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@TelegraphSport
@GarethADaviesDT
This isn't exclusive. It's a blend of press conference quotes that are a week old and embargoed quotes we had all agreed to hold back.
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Sensational DJing at York Hall tonight. Peak Coral followed by Libertines. And the good news is, even without any fans or body heat, the giant LCD screens mean it is roughly 326° and this fat pink gammon is well done.
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Francis Joseph was a wonderful monster of a man who my family really loved. He was hugely & rightly proud of his boy Zak. Spoke to him last month when he called to talk boxing & we laughed for about an hour. He was still ready & willing to fight absolutely everyone. Real Crazy G
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After a wonderful spell of paternity leave I return to a mountain of transcribing. But my favourite quote of 2019 leaps out when a fighter says: "You can save a million kids or dolphins, rescue homeless dogs or donkeys. But some people will always think you are just an arsehole”
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Top stat in Guardian: Shaun Wright-Phillips’ PL start for QPR v Palace was his first for 770 days, the average life expectancy of a hamster
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Made my BBC Radio London debut tonight, 20 years since I did work experience there. Shame my devoted-listener nan wasn't here to tune in. She'd have said: "What the fuck do you know about boxing? They must've been short staffed, you don't know if you're having a shit or haircut".
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For anyone that does not know,
@hirstclass
is one of the most successful,kind & helpful men in UK football writing. He is also a great a friend & mentor. But sadly he is also an Owl & a Pig. I never ever get to see him. But tonight - as a Blade - I put Porky to the sword!
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Once again, millionaire John Terry is so desperate to stay at his beloved Chels that all it'll take to make that dream come true is more £££
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Today - in the finest parenting move since my dad locked me in the car for two hours outside William Hill with the Stanley Road album - I take my boy to see OCS & Squeeze back-to-back. Robin Hood followed by Up The Junction. My work is done then, really, he'll suss the rest out.
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No-chill Uysk: "I feel nothing but respect for Anthony Joshua, he was a bit emotional & he was pulling some of my team-mates.
"But I don’t recommend him a bare knuckle fight with them because they are horrible street fighters."
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Really thought I nailed the new run-train-run commute this morning. Even when a kind lady at Waterloo informed me my rucksack was wide open. 'Cheers do-gooder' I thought triumphantly. Turns out I lost a bottle of shower gel, my lunchbox and a shoe.
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I love Branislav Ivanovic. I adore how he destroys wingers, glides past full-backs & could kill a bear armed only with a Dairylea triangle
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Celebrity culture will keep QPR in the spotlight as attention seekers are rife from the very top to the rock bottom:
http://t.co/0Kb4dKcesE
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Jiggo knocked out match reports that made you really fancy a pint with him & I can think of no higher praise than that. Felt a bit of a div telling tell once but now I'm glad I did. We should all say nice things before it's too late. Gutted we never managed that gallon.
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We can't believe the scoring, we are sickened by the officials, we demand an inquest into the judging.
How long has this governing body been in business?
Well, 15 minutes since you set it up.
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Fans indifferent to Steve Gallen forfeit the right to cry when QPR is left devoid of anyone who cares about the club
#WeRTogetherWhenItSuits
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Opened a can of worms writing this about
@Poochi_17
as he's since popped up on a string of radio & TV shows giving it the big'un.
But he's a truly lovely fella and has been a magnificent servant to the sport he loves.
We're like Phil & Grant now.
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Like most UK boxing hacks I've enjoyed long chats with Josh Taylor. He's open & emotional about his childhood, missus, pet dog PacMan, even a non-verbal fan he helped with autism. Then fight week pops along and he turns into the most terrifying bassa imaginable. Sleep tight Teo
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Cheeky when an out-of-work manager starts turning up at the ground of a struggling one, a liberty when he nicks the job after 'advising' him
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I've struggled to get as much coverage for the superb Okolie vs CBS fight as I'd have liked. The highlight from my trip to Bournemouth is a female security expert calling
@RobTebbutt
an "arsehole". I like Rob, it's not about him, it was the perfect use & delivery of a great word
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I am never ever predicting anything again. Fury has just taken the utter piss out us doubters. Unreal.
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I once read a 600-word match report that started with 'THERE ARE NO WORDS'...
If I had any bollocks I would have nicked that for the fight.
Incredible.
There are no words. But I filed about 700 just in case.
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QPR fans can boo, cheer, scream or cry. They can do whatever they like - because they can't go on loan to Marseille
http://t.co/CFsAz9Q6pj
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Think it's only fair that QPR finish absolutely rock bottom of the Premier League this season, now. Burnley certainly don't deserve it
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Superb addition to industry.
Can't wait to hammer him for turning in a terrible card.
I'll shout: "What do you know about bloody boxing?"
&
@Poochi_17
will laugh because its nothing vicious.
Some boxing trolls would target something else, like his losing record. No, not my way
Congrats on your pro career,
@Poochi_17
👍
Ringside at
#JoshuaFranklin
tonight as an applicant referee on his first assignment with a scoring test! 👨⚖️
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#QPR
don't need to ban players from Twitter - They just need to employ people they can trust to use it properly
http://t.co/wLXPXSq8JW
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I'm pleased Jonathan Wilkes is fit for Soccer Aid this year, must've been touch & go what with all he's been up to for the last 364 days.
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Was anyone else really, actually, quite impressed with how Fulham played tonight? Looks like Kit has really got them going
#apathy
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Ched Evans earned the penalty? He dived on the floor with two defenders miles off him.
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Someone at QPR needs to back or sack Harry Redknapp. Secret mole & eerie silence leave him & the team looking weak
http://t.co/QeScxKMeic
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Have a listen to this by
@BRIANGITTINS1
before it gets pulled off the internet & deleted forever on the grounds of obscenity & general filth...
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Little tip here for any other rotund middle-aged men trying desperately to jog themselves into shape. This was designed to treat the weather-beaten udders of bovine cattle. But it does an utterly stella job on all those delicate human areas where chafing can arise. You're welcome
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I knew Arslan 'The Lion' Makmhudov was in trouble when his whole team turned up with 'Eye of the Tiger' kit.
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