Football Daily | Summing up Europe’s big night of thud and blunder thus

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There’s a recurring anxiety dream that occasionally prompts Football Daily to sit bolt upright in bed in the middle of the night with our Winnie-the-Pooh jimmy-jams and bedclothes drenched in a cold sweat. It harks back to the time many years ago when, for reasons best known to themselves, the Man thought it might be a good idea to send the world’s most popular football email to cover gymnastics – no, really – at the London 2012 Olympics.

I liked your oblique Shakespearean reference to ‘11 gentlemen of Girona’ (yesterday’s Football Daily). Turned out to be as you like it and much ado about nothing for the Gunners, neither a comedy of errors nor a case of love’s labour’s lost, just as you like it and all’s well that ends well” – Max Maxwell.

While I enjoyed the quote in yesterday’s Still Want More concerning Manchester United’s pursuit of a young Arsenal player (‘knock, knock, knockin’ on Heaven’s door’ – full email edition), I think that there’s a lyric from Dylan’s 1997 masterpiece, Tryin’ to Get to Heaven, that better summarises the Red Devils’ current predicament: ‘When you think that you’ve lost everything, you find out that you can always lose a little more’” – R Reisman.

I read with great interest that Ruben Amorim and Marcus Rashford are no longer on speaking terms (yesterday’s News, Bits and Bobs, full email edition). I’d like the same arrangement with my boss. Given that I’m self-employed, though, matters are a bit complicated. So, future communications between me and my employer (also me) will be exclusively conducted via Football Daily. Sounds sensible” – Mike Wilner.

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