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With bitter rivals Cardiff in the Championship drop zone and their club comfortably ensconced in mid-table after three wins put paid to any lingering relegation concerns, Swansea City fans could have been forgiven for being delighted even before news broke that Luka Modric had become a minority shareholder in their club. While he may lack the Hollywood glamour of Catherine Zeta-Jones and the comedy chops of podcasting’s Elis James, by investing in the Welsh club the Real Madrid and Croatia legend has immediately catapulted himself into a VIP place at the top table of celebrity Jacks.
Your lead piece about the Premier League’s end-of-season whimper (yesterday’s Football Daily) should not cause fans to lose heart. As Liverpool sleepwalk towards their 20th crown, simply cast your eyes down a little to the battle atop the Championship. Four games to go … Leeds and Burnley both on 88 points … Sheffield United ‘wobbling’ a-la Forest in third place as demonstrated by their defeat at bottom club Plymouth the other day … the playoffs to come … and lo!! The relegation battle is also not yet a fait accompli. Football lives!” – Allastair McGillivray.
Watching Vítor Pereira bringing the vibes to a Wolverhampton Wetherspoons (yesterday’s Quote of the Day) brought a surge of warmth and some unexpected dust to my cynical and jaded eyes. Could he be the man to fill the Jürgen Klopp (early years)-shaped hole in British football culture? God knows the Premier League could do with someone to remind them of the humanity that forms the basis of its ‘world leading’ product” – Andrew Parker.
It’s interesting to see that West Ham are just one place above the relegation zone (scroll down). Apropos of nothing, David Moyes’s win ratio there was 46% (compared with Julen Lopetegui’s 32% and Graham Potter’s 23%). With every week that passes, I think back to this Big Website piece” – Noble Francis.
Re: yesterday’s Football Daily letters. Let’s stop messing around. I’d like to propose a 512-team men’s World Cup: 211 nations, plus 211 ‘league’ teams made up of players playing in the league of each nation (picking after the national squads have chosen theirs), plus 50 B squads from the top 50 nations picking third, then 50 under-21s picking last. Straight knockout, one country hosting, no seeding, two matches at any one time, played over a 16-hour day. If we’re going to gorge ourselves and knacker out all the players, let’s do it properly. It would be carnage. Come on Gianni, pull your finger out” – Tom Fleuriot.
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