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    IAN HERBERT: Mullets, mustaches and magic as golden age of football sticker albums makes welcome return with Panini’s 2024 Premier League collection

    [ad_1] Amid the myriad glories of a Premier League career, the fabulous wealth, the sculpted brands, the PR gloss, most players will not clock that they have this week been assigned a precious and indelible place in what will one day be a precious volume of football social history. It might not seem much now…

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      IAN LADYMAN: It wasn’t Covid, it wasn’t about frozen assets – what did it for Everton was throwing substantial sums of money at substandard players… they gambled by trying to compete with their oil-rich counterparts and have paid the price

      [ad_1] In the end it was decreed that it was the football that had got Everton into this sorry mess. Not the costs of a new stadium, the collapse of a naming rights deal or the impact of the Covid pandemic. No, it was football. Everton had — according to the Premier League and now…

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        IAN HERBERT: At least Everton came clean – unlike secretive Man City, but their 10-point punishment displays a Premier League intent on making an example of a club, in a pre-emptive strike against independent regulation

        [ad_1] By Ian Herbert For The Daily Mail Published: 17:45 EST, 17 November 2023 | Updated: 17:45 EST, 17 November 2023 Everton supporters launched a GoFundMe page on Friday, to raise cash for banners protesting the decision to dock the club 10 points. In just two hours it had raised £10,000. And little wonder. The…

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          IAN LADYMAN: Mauricio Pochettino is a good man but the Chelsea manager lambasting the referee after clash with Man City shows why football has a BIG problem with abuse

          [ad_1] It turns out that the best referee in world rugby is friends with Anthony Taylor. Among the many things the recently retired Wayne Barnes must feel for Taylor will surely be a sense of pity. Barnes — who recently refereed the World Cup final between South Africa and New Zealand at the Stade de…

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            IAN LADYMAN: Tottenham’s 4-1 defeat by Chelsea was more like a scrap outside a kebab shop than a sporting contest! Mauricio Pochettino knows the weight this result could carry for his young Blues side

            [ad_1] When Tottenham’s gang of nine finally succumbed and fell behind with 12 minutes of regular time remaining here, Mauricio Pochettino turned and clapped his hands like he was acknowledging a well-executed 10-yard pass on the training field. He was rarely one for exuberant celebrations when he was Tottenham manager. Equally, he hasn’t had much…

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