Preston North End v Sheffield United: Championship – live
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When you’ve only bought one player, you’d probably better play him. Stefan Teitur Thordarson, born in Iceland, bought from Denmark, makes his debut tonight in the Preston midfield.
Hello and welcome to … the new football season. It’s 2024-25, which has a ring to it, don’t you think? Let’s hope it’s as hard to predict as 1974-75, when Everton slipped on a series of banana skins, Liverpool stumbled, Derby squeezed past them both to win the league, and the second-division champions were Manchester United, hotly pursued by Aston Villa.
