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LEAVE HARVEY ALONE YOU TROLLS, HE’S ONLY A KID

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The LeaguePaper Team
4 August 2019

PRECOCIOUS: Harvey Elliott

HARVEY Elliott did a dodgy impression of Harry Kane. So what? He doesn’t deserve to be hauled over the coals.
Elliott, now at Liverpool following last week’s move from Fulham, may possess a precocious talent but he is still a 16-year-old kid. A boy, really.
Can you remember all the idiotic, hurtful and ridiculous things you said at 16?
There are few places crueler than the playground, the classroom or the kerb outside the corner shop.
But that’s normal. Scientific studies of the human brain have repeatedly shown that qualities like empathy, re...

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