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There is a cap-sleeved, Air Max-ed contingent of 90s nostalgists who yearn for an ideal Premier League – Premiership, if you will – in which certain proud provincial clubs are magicked back into a top division of 20. Or should it be 22? Sorry, Bournemouth and Brentford. Your place is the old Division Two. Apologies, Brighton hipsters. Get thee back to the Goldstone Ground and Skint Records sponsorship; we wanna get loaded and we wanna have a good time. So who comes in? Leeds, of chuffin’ course, and Nottingham Forest have been welcomed back with open arms and memories of Frank Clark’s drooping moustache and Paul McGregor’s Kula Shaker vibes.
Re: analysis of Manchester United’s many problems (yesterday’s Football Daily). I feel it necessary to point out that Gary Neville did not allude to any boy wizards; he alluded to an actor called Daniel Radcliffe. I can sympathise; I’m a Spurs fan and, given their current league position, I’m also having trouble separating fantasy from reality” – Tim Clarke.
It would have been funnier if Neville had waited until such time as an ex-Brighton manager was touted as their next manager, in which case he could say that United need ‘Harry Potter, not Graham Potter’” – Elaine Shaw.
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