Football Daily | Kalvin Phillips to Ipswich makes sense: no club is more out of the way
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The life of a Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup winner sounds like a straightforward existence. That is even before adding in a European Championship final and 31 England caps but Kalvin Phillips has spent the past two seasons living in footballing purgatory, becoming the bittiest of bit-part players at Manchester City. Thanks to his healthy wage at the Etihad Stadium, Phillips is a difficult player to prise away from Pep Guardiola’s side, despite the fact he has almost zero chance of playing, making a loan the only viable option.
Gareth Southgate’s England call-up photo in [Wednesday]’s Memory Lane is intriguing. Yes, wrong flag, but why is Gareth wearing Chris Kirkland’s England youth team goalkeeping jersey. Nice Lev Yashin tribute styling though” – Geoff.
With the sight of Jimmy Greaves and Mike England downing milk from glass bottles in 1967, I was immediately transported back to 1947 and my five-year old self. Awakening from my kindergarten nap I would stumble sleepily into the hall with my classmates to grab ice cold milk in little glass bottles with a cardboard top and a little punch hole for the straw. Why does it taste creamier in the memory? Well it certainly was a thing of the past by 1982 when, on my first morning as a migrant in Australia, I rushed outside to waylay a milkman to enquire “Can I get Gold Top here?” With look of sadness (he was English too) he told me that the locals would have no idea what I meant. “This stuff’s too thin, it’s the heat.” He was right, and years later when the local version of the Milk Marketing Board let the Sheffield Shield fall into the hands of Pura Milk, I was prone to ask my neighbours, “Which is best, The Pura Milk Cup or The Sheffield Shield?” Pause while they reacted with some choice Australian phrases suggesting I had a shortfall in the sandwich/picnic department. I would clarify, “I’m not talking about the cricket, I’m talking about the milk; Sheffield milk, green grass, Jersey cows, inch of cream. Or your stuff; fields of straw, wilting cows and dishwater in cardboard?” Not the way to make friends but even now, at 82, I still yearn to go to the Co-op for my granny to get milk. And “don’t forget the divvy” – Bruce Ellis.
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