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Dangling juicy carrot tempts spirit-dodgers

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The LeaguePaper Team
18 March 2018

Chris Dunlavy

A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

NO arguing. What their manager is doing and how they’re doing it is fantastic. If there’s a loophole, they’ve found it and some of those players are as good as any I’ve seen in the world.
“But I can’t believe there’s such a massive loophole. It seems pretty ludicrous to me and we need to get it sorted.”
Another attack on Wolverhampton Wanderers? After the midweek broadside from Leeds chairman Andrea Radrizzani, you could certainly be forgiven for thinking so.
But no. Those words were spoken by Ian H...

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