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Pointing out that footballers are not the sharpest knives in the drawer may not be the most earth-shattering revelation, but every so often it is a fact that bears repeating.
I am preparing myself a huge weekend of televised sport. In the early hours of November 9, I will watch Joe Calzaghe take on Roy Jones Jr at Madison Square Garden and, later in the day, I’ll settle down for the surprisingly not-pay-per-view dust-up between Brentford and Havant & Waterlooville.
To offend or not to offend? That appears to have been the big question over the past week or two; from Joe Kinnear’s spectacular tirade against the press to the Tottenham supporters’ goading of Sol Campbell.
Greg Dyke has caused a minor rumbling with his comments about the “farcical” nature of the Premiership. Although I’m certain he wasn’t talking about a country house scene full of romantic misunderstandings and hilarious cases of mistaken identity, he has got a point.
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