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69 min Sam Allardyce, for example.
68 min “My mate just texted me,” says Alex Fresco. “I always time how long it takes the Spanish commentator to mention Peaky Blinders during any given Villa game. Tonight? One minute 17 seconds.”
It’s a very strange phenomenon, that whole thing. Next there’ll be grown men deliberately getting themselves rickets.
