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IT’S a bit of a strange time to be a football reporter on an English provincial newspaper – which is how I’m earning my living at the moment. It’s a bit like living through the Del Amitri song where everything is dead at five o’clock and every third car is a cab. I think you know the one I mean.

It’s my third party and I’ll cry if I want to

THERE are some things in life so complicated that only a select few people can make any sense of them: Quantum mechanics, Bob Dylan’s lyrics, football transfers.

Turkish surprise

THE esteemed ex-polytechnic at which I learned the craft of journalism (and then promptly forgot it) used to run a sports reporting exercise for its students.

Ronaldo goes Deirdre Barlow

NEWS just in: Cristiano Ronaldo’s pet guinea pig has pleaded with him to stay at Manchester United.

Exit Sven, enter Hughes

WE all knew Sven-Goran Eriksson was leaving Manchester City. We just didn’t know exactly when. The answer finally turned out to be 9am on Monday, June 2, when the club confirmed Eriksson’s departure on their website.