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Jude Bellingham has always known he is good at football, right from being a tot in the streets of Stourbridge, his talent so obvious his jumpers-for-goalposts period was all too brief. At Birmingham City, even Tom ‘Winningest’ Brady has to bow to the legend of Jude, who as a teenager helped keep Blues in the Championship, before his sale to Dortmund kept the club afloat. Thus was Jude’s No 22 shirt retired in 2021, an honour not even Trev Francis, Blues’ previous teenage deity, was afforded.
Huge kudos to Spain for arranging their victory photo (yesterday’s Football Daily) as an homage to Picasso’s ‘Guernica’, with full marks in particular to Messrs Cucurella and Merino for their positioning and facial expressions” – Patrick Taverner.
Fab piece on the Nations League yesterday but according to my rusty addition, there were 41 net-rustlers and billowers on Sunday. Feel free to reveal your calculations (other than blame your personal typist)” – Rob Steen (and no other frustrated Opta statisticians).
In Monday’s edition you wrote: ‘Providing a convoluted qualification system to a 48-team World Cup that is now almost impossible not to qualify for’. Oh, aye? Just you wait and see Scotland find a way to do it. I know they will – I’ve been watching them for far too long” – Peter Storch.
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