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Where’s the talking?

What better way to escape clique-ridden top-level football than a spot of Sunday League? Surely the grass-roots game can’t have been eaten up by hackneyed phrases and overused expressions – can it? AdAm Hurrey of angleofpostandbar.blogspot.com investigates…

THISis a piece about Sunday league football. It will not make any reference to hangovers (Yes! Some of them go out the night before and are still drunk when they turn up!), fat players (that’s right! They aren’t professional athletes!) or crap pitches (guess what, the public playing surface isn’...

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