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When is “last season” last season? Is 2024-25 now “this season”, or is it still “next season”? These are among the blue-sky, big-picture questions being forensically contemplated by this particular tea-timely email, alongside other cheese-based queries like: “Why does Babybel have such a stranglehold on the casual snack-sized cheese market?” And: “How long can Roquefort last without going off?” It’s practically 40% mould anyway! The point is, between the end of Euro 2024, Copa América and Euro 2025 qualifying until the beginning of the domestic league seasons in just under a month from now, there isn’t a whole lot going on right now outside of Big Website’s transfer interactives and possibly some Olympic footy to keep us going. Some people are even turning to cricket and golf to distract them from their day jobs. So, we are forced to rank things, inventing something, anything, to fill the void. Teams of the tournament, six contenders to replace Southgate, who shone and who flopped for England and the 18 best everyday items (No 7: funnels, apparently). All good lists.
Re: Justin Kavanagh’s missive over having both Lampard and Gerrard as co-managers for England (yesterday’s Football Daily letters). I believe the most important detail missing is what we would call the new hybrid boss? LampGerr? GerrLamp? I personally hope we go meta with ArdArd, and Ard² is the end result” – Rasteen Nowroozi.
If Lampard and Gerrard are both in the running for the gig, presumably, based on historical precedent, Paul Scholes should be there as a left-field choice too?” – Noble Francis.
One glaring omission from Richard Hirst’s Gareth Southgate valediction (yesterday’s letters) was surely a reference to his famous waistcoats. To add to his undoubted knighthood for services to sartorial elegance and, in recognition of his near-200 appearances for Aston Villa, may I suggest the Villans bestow upon him the honorary title of ‘Beau Brummie’?” – Adrian Irving.
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