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One game at a time? Don’t believe a word

THE WELL-RESPECTED WRITER IS OUR GUEST COLUMNIST

Glenn Moore

WE’RE taking each game as it comes’ ‘No one is talking about the R-word (or P-word)’
‘It is about looking after ourselves and not worrying about the others’.
As the season heads towards the business end, you can start ticking off these phrases on the football clichés bingo card, but however often managers and players repeat them everyone knows they are kidding.
Footballers are human. They will be studying the league table, looking at fixtures, working out the permutations, just like th...

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