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  Chris Dunlavy: Hammer time has become fun time! West Ham are loving life again

  Chris Dunlavy reflects on West Ham’s brilliant start in the Championship and why, despite promotion being the obvious goal, there is something to be said for enjoying a team that is winning games and scoring goals.

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  Chris Dunlavy: Identity crisis puts Burnley in the mire

  Chris Dunlavy examines Burnley’s identity crisis under Nicky Hayen and questions whether the Clarets’ financial pressures are now holding them back on and off the pitch.

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  Chris Dunlavy: Slow start has put Preston in great peril

  Chris Dunlavy examines Preston North End’s worrying start to the Championship season and asks whether their commitment to sustainability is finally becoming incompatible with life in the second tier.

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  CANNY NORTH END IN SMART MOVE TO CUT TIES

  Chris Dunlavy A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL OUT: Milutin Osmajic PRESTON have played an absolute blinder convincing Genoa to pay £2.5m for walking liability Milutin Osmajic. Whether it was biting Blackburn’s Owen Beck, racially abusing Burnley’s Hannibal Mejbri or headbutting Hull’s John Lundstram, the 27-year-old Montenegren was rarely far from...