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Is it safe to talk about football again?
LAYTH YOUSIF questions why anyone would rather pore over Fantasy Football and transfer news instead of playing or watching the beautiful game
Arsenal's William Saliba celebrates his side's second goal of the game
IS IT SAFE to talk about football again?
Rather than being dragged into the ever-growing clamour for transfer news – fake or otherwise – that seems to have morphed into a dangerously vacuous cult.
Everywhere you looked this month, you were assailed by the wailing and gnashing of fans – vapid and superficial fans at any rate – who acted as if the world was ending simply because their club couldn’t borrow more money they hadn’t yet earned to purchase a reserve right-back simply because their cousin-in-law’s next door neighbour told them that their first choice right-back was keen for a move because he wasn’t earning enough money. Or something like that.
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