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Bengal batsman Manoj Tiwary says he’ll be targeting several Man-of-the-Match performances in IPL 2011, while Kolkata Knight Riders will be concentrating on just making it past the group stage

ESPNcricinfo staff08-Apr-2011Bengal batsman Manoj Tiwary has said he’ll be aiming for match-winning performances in the IPL this year, while his franchise, Kolkata Knight Riders – who are coming off three poor seasons – will be concentrating on making it past the group stage before thinking of a maiden title.”We have a new team and a new captain [Gautam Gambhir]. Our first goal would be qualify for the semis and then take the final two steps,” Tiwary told the . “Personally, I would be looking to score consistently and I’m targeting four or five Man-of-the-Match awards.”Tiwary captained Bengal to victory in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy – India’s domestic Twenty20 competition – this year. He played for Delhi Daredevils in the first two IPL seasons, before moving Kolkata in 2010 and will provide the main local connect for fans in the absence of Sourav Ganguly.”To be honest, I didn’t have a proper feel of the IPL in the first two seasons. In my first season with the Delhi Daredevils, I batted in the middle order where opportunities were rather limited – with Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and Shikhar Dhawan in top form, the lower order didn’t have much to do,” he said. “In the second season, in South Africa, I got injured after playing just one match and didn’t play thereafter.”It was only after I moved to Kolkata Knight Riders in 2010 that I got a real feel of the competition. I learnt a lot about batting in T20 cricket from Brad Hodge.”Though predominantly a batsman and an agile fielder, Tiwary has filled the role of a handy part-time bowler on the domestic circuit and this is an aspect of his game he’ll be looking to further during the IPL. “I would be looking to contribute substantially in all three departments of the game.” In a Kolkata practice match earlier this week, Tiwary made 86 off 44 balls batting at No. 3, but he’s not certain of where he will bat in the line-up.”I was asked to open the innings [in 2010] which I was not accustomed to doing, but I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge. It [opening the batting this season] depends on the role assigned to me by the team management.”The entry of Yusuf Pathan and Brett Lee gives the new-look Kolkata side an edge, Tiwary said. “We have a very balanced side [this year] and can go all the way. L Balaji is a very effective bowler in T20, while [Jaidev] Unadkat is quite sharp. And I am looking forward to playing alongside [Jacques] Kallis, [Brad] Haddin, [Eoin] Morgan, Shakib [Al Hasan] and [Ryan] ten Doeschate.”Kolkata take on Chennai Super Kings in the opening IPL match, on April 8 in Chennai.

The England & Wales Cricket Board has launched an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the appearance of the banned Pakistan fast bowler, Mohammad Amir, in a Surrey League fixture last weekend, after accepting that the fixture, between Addington 174

ESPNcricinfo staff10-Jun-2011The England & Wales Cricket Board has launched an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the appearance of the banned Pakistan fast bowler, Mohammad Amir, in a Surrey League fixture last weekend, after accepting that the fixture, between Addington 1743 CC and St Luke’s, falls under its regulatory jurisdiction.In a press release, the ECB announced that it had requested the Surrey Cricket Board to assist it in its investigation, adding that it had also written separately to Addington, seeking a full written explanation from the club of the events leading up to Amir’s appearance in the match.The ECB’s acknowledgement of the incident increases the likelihood that Amir will now face sanctions from the ICC for breaching the terms of the five-year ban that he incurred earlier this year, following his involvement in the spot-fixing scandal which erupted during the Lord’s Test between Pakistan and England last August.Though Amir did not deny reports in the Daily Star that he had taken part in the fixture, he claimed he had done so on the understanding that it did not contravene the terms of his ban – something that the ECB have now made clear is not the case.”I was informed by club representatives before the game that it was a friendly match, being played on a privately owned cricket ground,” Amir told PakPassion.net. “I asked the club representatives if the match fell under the jurisdiction of the ECB and they informed me that the match did not. I spoke to several club representatives about the issue and they all told me that it was a friendly match and therefore would not contravene my ban from the ICC. I was informed that I was fine to play.”Amir also denied that he had signed any registration documents with the club and insisted that he would never have taken the risk of playing had he known it was an official match.”I would not be stupid enough to knowingly play in a match that I knew would contravene my ban. Wherever I am going to play cricket, the world will know about it. I would not be stupid enough to play in a match where I knew that I would be taking a risk”.Amir was central to Addington’s 81-run victory in the game, against St Luke’s CC. He surprisingly opened the innings and scored 60 before returning figures of 4 for 9 in seven overs.This is not the first time Amir has appeared in a game which has had to be investigated by cricket authorities. Earlier this year in January, when he was under provisional suspension and still awaiting punishment for the Lord’s scandal, he turned out for a Rawalpindi club to play a friendly game. That prompted the ICC and PCB to investigate the nature of the game before the former eventually concluded that it was an unofficial game and the club wasn’t registered with the Rawalpindi cricket association; Amir was thus found to have not broken the ICC’s anti-corruption code of conduct

Sri Lanka’s captain bemoaned the post-lunch session when the team lost four wickets for 31 runs

Andrew Fidel Fernando in Rawalpindi11-Dec-2019Sri Lanka had sailed through the first session in Rawalpindi, a century opening stand in sight, but at the end of the day were left ruing the post-lunch session in which they lost four wickets for 31 runs.Dimuth Karunaratne and Oshada Fernando had seemed settled, with Karunaratne hitting a fluent fifty, and Oshada growing in confidence after he had taken 20 deliveries to get off the mark. But Karunaratne’s dismissal in the 31st over was followed by Oshada edging Naseem Shah to first slip soon after. Kusal Mendis and Dinesh Chandimal were then also dismissed before the end of the 45th over – a period in which Sri Lanka progressed at just a little over two an over.Karunaratne believes Sri Lanka should have batted with more intent through the middle session, after having gone to lunch without loss.”There was a bit of swing in that second session, and a little seam, but I think we could have used a different approach because we’d had a good start, having made 89 in the first session,” he said. “Maybe we could have been more of a threat to their bowlers after lunch. We should have batted a bit more positively, because when the runs are ticking over on the board, even if wickets fall, it’s not such a big deal.”Although all but one of Sri Lanka’s batsmen made it to double figures (the exception being Dinesh Chandimal, who received a near-unplayable away-seamer from Mohammad Abbas), only Karunaratne made a half-century on day one. Oshada and Angelo Mathews both faced more than 75 deliveries, but made only 40 and 31 respectively.”We got good starts, but no one went for a big score,” Karunaratne said. “We got a few 20s and 30s. We need to be converting those scores if we want to win a Test. Everyone, including me, has to make sure we don’t let go once we get those starts – in the next innings if we can.”Oshada’s innings, however, like many of his outings this year, had been full of promise. Shunted up to the unfamiliar position of opener, he had settled into a rhythm through the course of the first session, and even memorably came down the pitch to hit Haris Sohail over his head for the only six of the day. Oshada had shone during Sri Lanka’s tour of South Africa in February, striking an especially impressive 75 not out off 106 balls as Sri Lanka chased down what had seemed a tricky target in Port Elizabeth. He had not played a Test since then however, as he was displaced in the XI by Mathews, who returned from injury in the series that followed.”Oshada batted really well. This is only his third Test, and his attitude and batting style were very good,” Karunaratne said. “He batted with a lot of confidence. That became a strength for me as well. I knew I could give him the strike without any fear. I thought he was batting even better than me in the first session. There were one or two times when he was getting a bit loose, and at those times I just reminded him to make sure he capitalises on his start.”Sri Lanka finished the day at 202 for 5, with Dhananjaya de Silva and Niroshan Dickwella (the last recognised batting pair) at the crease.”We need to try and get to 300, because we need a good total to give our bowlers a chance. We got a good start and didn’t capitalise. Dikka opens the batting in shorter formats, and Dhananjaya has come in at No. 3 for us in the past, so both of them should be able to negotiate the second new ball when that comes around. Hopefully they can get us past 275 and then the tail can get a few extra runs.”

Upul Tharanga’s ninth one-day century and his first against West Indies steered Sri Lanka to a convincing eight-wicket win and a 1-0 lead in the three-match one-day series

The Bulletin by Sa'adi Thawfeeq 03-Feb-2011 by eight wicketsUpul Tharanga proved he can play the sheet anchor role for Sri Lanka as he carried his bat through the innings•AFP

Upul Tharanga’s ninth one-day century and his first against West Indies steered Sri Lanka to a convincing eight-wicket win and a 1-0 lead in the three-match one-day series.Tharanga paced his innings superbly, and batted out the entire length of the Sri Lanka innings, to remain unbeaten on 101 off 143 balls with the help of seven fours.The tall, lean left-hander is expected to play the sheet anchor role during Sri Lanka’s World Cup campaign and bat out the entire 50 overs. On Thursday, he showed what he is capable of doing, as Sri Lanka chased down a rain-revised total of 197 off 47 overs in just 42.3, after West Indies had been dismissed for 203.Tharanga’s innings was chanceless, and on a slow pitch which suited his style of batting he was never in trouble despite West Indies using as many as seven bowlers, who managed to prize out only two wickets between them.Tillakaratne Dilshan left in the ninth over, attempting to cut a ball too close to his body and offering a catch behind the wicket. Captain Kumar Sangakkara managed 20 out of a second-wicket stand of 70 with Tharanga, before hitting a half volley from Dwayne Bravo to short extra cover.Mahela Jayawardene and Tharanga made sure West Indies didn’t make any further inroads into the batting by sharing an unbroken stand of 97. Jayawardene sealed the match with an inside-out drive to the boundary off Miller. He was unbeaten on 48 at the end of the match.Sri Lanka came up with a disciplined bowling performance to restrict West Indies to 203. Given the persistent rain over the previous two days, the toss was vital and Sri Lanka had no hesitation in inviting West Indies to bat on the same surface on which the first match was played three days ago.
Openers Chris Gayle and Adrian Barath, who made a century in the first ODI, negotiated some testing overs from Lasith Malinga and Nuwana Kulasekara to add 45 runs within the first 10 overs, before Kulasekara trapped Barath lbw, playing across the line to a ball that pitched on off stump.Gayle, who had previously hit Kulasekara for a six and four in one over, then edged Muttiah Muralitharan to Thilan Samaraweera at second slip. Gayle came forward to a good length ball and was surprised by the bounce that Muralitharan got off the very first ball of his spell.The fall of the openers on 45 slowed West Indies’ run-rate and Sangakkara took advantage of it by getting a few overs from part-time offspinner Dilshan in. West Indies looked to be getting their innings back on track as Darren Bravo and Ramnaresh Sarwan added 49 runs off 96 balls. The stand ended when Sarwan, who was backing up too far at the non-striker’s end, was run out after a hard drive by Darren Bravo hit the stumps off bowler Rangana Herath’s hand.Darren was joined by his half-brother Dwayne Bravo and the duo put on 38 before Malinga, returning for his second spell, trapped Darren Bravo lbw with a reverse-swinging delivery.
Another reverse-swinging delivery from Malinga soon accounted for the dangerous Kieron Pollard, who played down the wrong line, and had his off stump pegged back.Dwayne Bravo and Carlton Baugh added a further 37 runs to take West Indies to 175 for 5 before Herath, who had bowled a tight line and length, was finally rewarded with the wicket of Dwayne Bravo. The remaining West Indies batsmen failed to offer much resistance as the last four wickets fell for just 16 runs.It was an all-round bowling effort from the Sri Lankans, with Malinga the pick of the bowlers with 3 for 30. Sri Lanka’s fielders backed their bowlers with some excellent ground fielding and missed just one catch when Angelo Mathews dropped Baugh at long leg.

Batsman hopes injury will prove a ‘good thing’ in the long run and hopes to be fit for County Championship opener

George Dobell27-Feb-2020Rory Burns believes the injury that curtailed his winter with the Test team may prove “a good thing” for English cricket in the long term.Burns sustained serious ligament damage when playing football in warm-up the day before the second Test against South Africa. He subsequently underwent surgery and was ruled out of the remaining three Tests in that series and the two upcoming Tests in Sri Lanka. Having just established himself in the team – he had made two Test centuries since August and at least one half-century in four of his previous five Tests – it was a cruel blow both for Burns and for England.ALSO READ: Burns sidelined for four months after ankle surgeryBut the injury had further repercussions. As the latest in a saga of football-related injuries – Jonny Bairstow and Joe Denly were among the other members of the England squad to have sustained injuries in a similar manner – it led to the England management banning football in warm-ups. Several of the first-class counties are understood to have taken similar decisions ahead of the 2020 season.Now, as Burns contemplates his comeback, he admits he will not be playing football again. And he reflects that Ashley Giles, a long-term critic of the idea of playing football as a warm-up activity, was probably right all along. Giles is the director of England’s men’s teams.”Have I ruined it [playing football] for everyone?” Burns says with a smile. “I think I have ruined it for the county circuit. The majority of it, anyway, and certainly the England boys. But I don’t think there’s too many arguments from too many places.”While I am still a professional cricketer I probably won’t play football again. It’s taken four months out of a career and the stage I had got myself to where I was playing quite nicely.”It was an avoidable setback and when you get something that’s avoidable like that you probably re-evaluate whether you want to waste your time doing four months in a gym rehabbing or being on a plane to Sri Lanka.”Was Giles right all along? Potentially. It’s probably taken something like this to re-evaluate it; something like this to put it into perspective. It shows what the downsides of football are, I suppose. There are obviously a lot of plus points to football but I don’t think I will be playing it any time again soon.”It was a bit freakish. Most people roll their ankle on the outside; I did going over to the inside. I think my studs got caught in the floor. But if that’s the catalyst to put things right and maybe say you don’t need it and keep the boys on the park it’s probably a good thing in a weird way.”If none of those guys get injured moving forward because football has been moved out of it then I think that’s a positive thing for English cricket.”Rory Burns speaks at the PCA’s rookie camp•Barrington Coombs/Getty Images for PCA

The good news for Burns is that he looks on course to be fit for the start of the county season. While he hasn’t picked up a bat as yet, he will go on Surrey’s pre-season tour to the UAE from March 17 and is expected to return to their team for their opening Championship fixture against Somerset at The Oval starting on April 19. Barring a significant dip in form, it would be a surprise if he did not return to the Test team when England host West Indies from the start of June.As a player who has had his fair share of ups and downs in the game, Burns was a natural choice to address the 50 or so young players attending the PCA’s rookie camp earlier this week. Among other things, he spoke of the need for persistence – it took him five successive seasons of scoring 1,000 first-class runs to convince the selectors to pick him – and the dangers of social media.ALSO READ: Never a better time to be a professional cricket, but rookies learn perils are huge tooIn particular, he looks back to the aftermath of the Ireland Test – when he scored 6 in each innings – and the savaging he took from some sections of the media. Mark Waugh memorably said Burns “looked like a nightwatchman” and suggested: “don’t think he’ll be playing the Ashes.” Burns responded with a maiden Test century in the first Ashes Test a few days later.”The thing that annoyed me about the Ireland game was that people judge you very quickly – be it fans or whatever – on a snapshot of your career,” he says. “I’d had seven years of batting in first-class cricket that was overwritten in seven Tests.”In the County Championship you don’t get that level of speculation. I don’t avoid social media, but you have to taper it to the voices you want to listen to. I still had it open when I started my Test career and I didn’t read all of it but you can’t help it when it’s at the top of your mentions… Tom Noddy down the road has given his twopence.”The key is: you’re never as good as you think you are when you’re doing well, and you’re never as bad as you think you are when you’re not. You’re always somewhere in the middle and you just bounce along. It’s remembering that. Sticking to the fundamentals of what works for you.”

Darren Sammy said his side was in a good position during their match against South Africa at the Feroz Shah Kotla, but the allrounders in the lower-middle order did not capitalise

ESPNcricinfo staff25-Feb-2011Before West Indies’ opening World Cup match against South Africa, Darren Sammy had said he wanted the cricket community of the Caribbean to wake up on Thursday morning and discover that their team had broken open the World Cup with a performance to remember. After the game at the Kotla on Thursday night, what they would see and read though, was a scorecard that reflected one more game had slipped away from his team’s dangerously careless grasp.A seven-wicket defeat to South Africa could have been expected, for Graeme Smith’s gamblers had sent warning shots across the subcontinent after their performance on Thursday night, but Sammy spoke of how West Indies threw it all away. “We had guys getting starts and none of us carried on. That’s where we lost out,” he said. “At 41 overs, we were 201 and our allrounders were still there. We had [Kieron] Pollard, [Dwayne] Bravo and myself … we could have got to 270.”Sammy admitted that getting to 222 was actually a bonus, “given that myself, Chris [Gayle] and Pollard didn’t do what we were supposed to. If any of us would have done something …” he said and trailed off. The possibility of people like Gayle and Pollard performing to their optimum is probably what Sammy hopes will keep keep the Caribbean fans waking up on cricket mornings with some optimism.The Delhi wicket has always made stern demands on bowlers and West Indies had, Sammy said, already decided to bat first. “Before the match everyone was uncertain as to how the pitch would play but looking at it, we should have scored 270-plus on the wicket.” West Indies, he said, could only have made a match of Thursday’s game had they got into South Africa’s middle order. “From what we had seen in their series against India, we didn’t think their middle order looked too strong, they have quite a few young players.” He said that while opportunities had been created, “AB [de Villiers] batted like a senior and took South Africa home.”There were four referrals in the West Indies innings, and barring one that went in favour of Darren Bravo in the opening over of the match, South Africa were at the winning end of all. Sammy, who managed to retain his humour at the end of what must have been a tough evening, stepped aside from stirring up trouble when asked about the UDRS Lite in operation at the World Cup without both Snicko and Hot Spot, though he did hint that there were some decisions he was not sure of even after the referrals. “I think it’s a good addition to the World Cup. Less mistakes are likely to be made,” he said and went on, with a laugh, “The decisions that were made [in the match] clearly showed us the ball was hitting the stumps”. The laugh however was as good as him, saying the word, “Not” in his head. Sammy ended the debate with, “So there is nothing much I can say about that, it was just Hawk Eye for us.”There would have been much debate about whether West Indies could have played an extra specialist spinner in their left-armer Nikita Miller to give Sulieman Benn some company and the team another slow bowling option, for they are with the current combination far too dependent on the part-time spin of Gayle. Miller could have been included in the team had Darren Bravo been asked to keep wickets instead of Devon Smith, who replaced the injured Carlton Baugh in the squad. Sammy would have none of it, “The guys who are picked in the XI to bowl are capable of doing the job but you have to be consistent to exert the pressure … I don’t think we misread the pitch.” He was asked whether he missed Miller and said that hypothetically, “who knows what he could have,” before adding, “after I lost [Dwayne] Bravo, I surely did miss him.”Dwayne Bravo’s injury and West Indies’ defeat may have distracted attention from the Darren Bravo innings, but Sammy’s assessment of his No. 3’s 73 was measured. At the start he said, “Darren is a very confident young player, most people compare him to Brian [Lara]. He really looks like Brian. He is a good asset for us. From the time he has made his debut he has batted well for us and I hope he continues.” When asked about Darren Bravo’s progress in his brief international career, Sammy said, “He played really well in Sri Lanka; all I would say is that when he gets to fifty, he must try to convert it to a hundred, which I am sure he will do.”West Indies’ next match is against Netherlands in Delhi on February 28.

Shane Watson says it will be “shattering” and “horrendous” to be part of the first Australian side in 24 years to finish a home Ashes series without the urn

Peter English at the MCG28-Dec-2010Shane Watson says it will be “shattering” and “horrendous” to be part of the first Australian side in 24 years to finish a home Ashes series without the urn. The hosts, who last lifted the prize in 2007, are only four wickets from a defeat that will ensure England retain the tiny trophy that means so much.”It’s not very good, it’s horrendous, to be totally honest,” Watson said after the side finished day three at 6 for 169, still 246 from making England bat again. “Going into this Ashes series we knew how important it would be to win the Ashes because Australia hasn’t lost the Ashes in 24 years.”England have two days to take the four wickets needed to earn a 2-1 lead and while the contest could finish level in Sydney next week, that will be no consolation for the local men. “The most important thing is winning that urn back,” Watson said. “Obviously we will do everything we can to restore pride and draw the series, but the most important thing was
winning that little urn and we haven’t been able to do it.”Watson, who top scored with a smooth 54, said it was “shattering” to be in this position a week after hitting back so strongly in Perth. He was also concerned about driving people away with the side’s poor play here and during the second Test in Adelaide.”The Australian fans have come out and supported us and we haven’t given them anything to support,” he said. “We really do have to go out there in Sydney and try to keep some of our supporters and fans onside. The way we’ve played, we might have turned a few people off. We’re going to have to restore that.”

Crystal Palace have seemingly handed Celtic a major boost in their pursuit of Eddie Howe.

That’s according to Football Insider, who have been informed from sources close to both the Eagles and the Hoops.

Burnley’s Sean Dyche is now the favourite to take over from Roy Hodgson, with a Palace source admitting ‘Dyche figures most prominently in the thoughts of the board’ – ten words that could be key in Celtic’s attempts to land Howe.

Howe has spoken to Palace ahead of a potential Selhurst Park swoop, but it seems as if they now have Dyche at the top of their list.

A Celtic source meanwhile believes the 43-year-old, who verbally agreed on a Parkhead move at the beginning of the month, has been hedging his bets while waiting to see how events pan out in London.

Transfer Tavern take

In our opinion, Dyche being the favourite for the Palace job may now lead to Howe eventually putting pen to paper on a Glasgow move.

As a Hoops source believes, he could have been waiting to see what was going on in Croydon, however, he was tabled a ‘wonderful offer’ by Celtic and may now be willing to sign the paperwork with Dyche moving to the fore in London.

Of course, details such as his coaching staff, salary and transfer budget may still need to be agreed, but with Palace now aiming for Dyche, we feel that will only spell good news for the Hoops going forward if Howe is their man.

In other news: Manager of Premier League giants talks to Celtic star ahead of possible summer move, find out how it went here. 

Southampton fans are livid after their U23 side lost 7-1 to Leicester City on Monday.

It has not been the best few days for the St Mary’s outfit. On Sunday, they were defeated 1-0 by the Foxes at Wembley in the F.A Cup semi-final with a pitiful performance. Despite what was a massive occasion, they failed to even muster up a single shot on target (SofaScore). Quite frankly, that just isn’t good enough.

On Monday, their development squad faced the East Midlands side’s equivalent. Although it was only 2-1 at half-time, they ended up being defeated by six goals. The result now means Southampton are bottom of the Premier League 2 South section, having won just four matches so far this season in 22 outings (FlashScore).

The result was shared by the club’s official Twitter account, and it attracted plenty of attention from the Saints supporters. They took to the social media platform to share their disgust at the outcome.

Let’s see what the Southampton fans had to say below

“Gao out”

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“The club is rotten”

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“Yup, Leicester built on it for sure. Utter shambles.”

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“If this happened as regularly as it is nowadays under Les Reed there would of been riots. This is down to both Ralph & Matt Crocker. Seriously need to sort it out.”

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“Shambles of a club in every level at the moment. Changes needed.”

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“Cracked me up seeing this. Not even any message with the pic. It is actually excruciating being a saints fan isn’t it.”

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In other news, Southampton fans slammed this man at Wembley.

Plenty of Crystal Palace fans have been reacting to a transfer update on social media regarding Wayne Hennessey.

According to Football League World, Middlesbrough, Nottingham Forest and Preston North End are just three of the clubs who are taking a look at the 34-year-old ahead of the summer window.

Hennessey is out of contract at Selhurst Park at the end of the season, so it looks as if he’ll be leaving Palace on a free transfer over the coming months.

The Welshman has made 132 appearances for the Eagles across a seven-year period. However, he has turned out just once under Roy Hodgson this season in a Carabao Cup defeat to Bournemouth.

His Palace deal is thought to be worth £40,000-a-week, but it seems as if his days in the capital are now numbered.

Palace fans react

Both @cpfc_xtra and @CPFCtransfersHQ shared the transfer update regarding Hennessey on Twitter on Friday afternoon. Here is what some Palace fans had to say in reply, with many not exactly distraught at the goalkeeper’s impending exit.

“I’ll get the car started”

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“Finally”

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“It was a good ride sir”

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“So which club’s going down then?”

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“Unlucky lads”

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“Time for him to go. Sorry, never seen a goalkeeper so tall who is completely unable to take a cross. Never understood what they did in training as not improved at all.”

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In other news: Many Palace fans buzzing over club’s interest in Arsenal ace, find out more here.