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TACTICS? JUST PUT IT IN THE MIXER!

DAN BILLINGHAM suggests that sometimes you can’t beat a bit of good old spirit, determination and willpower…

DAN BILLINGHAM
THERE was a peculiar sensation in the minutes after Jamie Vardy had pulled Leicester level on the night against Atletico Madrid in their Champions League quarter-final second leg and the hosts continued to ping hopeful balls into the box and chase them down.
It was a feeling that was strange in its simplicity.
In an age when people are filling hard drives with the data they get from football matches and hundreds of thousands of words are being written on e...

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