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IS IT SAFE to talk about football again?
Rather than being dragged into the ever-growing clamour for transfer news – fake or otherwise – that seems to have morphed into a dangerously vacuous cult.
Everywhere you looked this month, you were assailed by the wailing and gnashing of fans – vapid and superficial fans at any rate – who acted as if the world was ending simply because their club couldn’t borrow more money they hadn’t yet earned to purchase a reserve right-back simply because their cousin-in-law’s next door neighbour told them that their first choice right-back was keen for a move because he wasn’t earning enough money. Or something like that.
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