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Same Old Routine: Preparing to start again

Jonny Brick appreciates the ritualistic arrival of a new football season…

Same Old

Jonny Brick appreciates the ritualistic arrival of a new football season...
Tough to stop: Real Madrid have added to their all-star cast by signing Kylian Mbappe

Wars, famine, disease, football: the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Nothing is certain but death, taxes and a Liverpool home win, although in a break from the norm Watford start this season with the same manager as the one who ended the previous one (Tom Cleverley).
Watford’s Tom Cleverley
Old faces are in situ at old places: Neil Harris manages Millwall, as he did between 2014-19, and Sheffield field United’s Chris Wilder will h...

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