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Back in the day, football clubs would simply announce their latest transfer signing with a photo. Sometimes, the player would hold the shirt up in the boardroom, or in the stands. Sometimes, for a bit of variety, the player would wear the shirt and hold the shirt up. Front and back, like, to appease the masses. Things started ramping up in the 90s. Bryan Robson was announced at Middlesbrough in 1994 by doing a few kick-ups in a suit/kit combo: jacket and tie up top, shin pads and shorts down the bottom. Because you know, he’s the player-manager. Business in the boardroom, party on the pitch. Still, it sort of worked. We’re talking about it now, 29 years later.
My daughter was reading Football Daily over my shoulder last night and asked who Hannah Dingley was – I explained and she asked if there were lots of women managing men’s football teams. ‘But aren’t there lots of men in charge of women’s teams …?’ A withering look, a shake of the head and STOP FOOTBALL has its latest nine-year-old convert” – John Gregory.
Re: Andrew Douglas’s query about wearing scarves in Saudi Arabia (yesterday’s Football Daily letters). If they have air-con units in their stadiums that are anything like the ones Qatar employed during the World Cup, they’ll need scarves, hats, hoodies, gloves, the lot” – Jim Hearson.
Jon Deacon might have a point in terms of similarities between the UK and Saudi Arabia (yesterday’s letters). But, ask yourself, does the government of the country that hosts the Premier League promote policies that contravene human rights law? What? Oh” – Jon Millard.
As a regular reader, I was interested enough to look at the offer of the upcoming Football Weekly book [available to order now, out on 28 September – Football Daily Ed]. The webpage invited me to be the first to review it. Having duly written my one-star review, I was then told I couldn’t submit it as I hadn’t bought the book. So that’s five minutes of my life wasted” – Mark Waters.
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