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Following his side’s Bigger Cup win over what currently passes for the reigning champions on Wednesday night, Arne Slot told TNT Sports he was looking forward to spending a little bit of downtime with his family, who were over in Merseyside for the week from the Netherlands. While it might have seemed an odd thing for a Premier League manager to admit with a game against Manchester City to prepare for, one suspects most Liverpool fans wouldn’t have batted an eyelid if he’d announced he was going to spend the next few days slumped in a Bold Street doorway while painted bright orange and slurping from a bottle of Buckfast, because in Arne they trust and if that’s what he thinks will help get his side a result on Sunday then it’s fine by them.

I was a football player. Videos more than 12 minutes? Forget it, because of concentration … Instead of video, we do it like walking and jogging – it’s a way to do it. And showing some videos” – Ruben Amorim, there, on how some of his tactical Manchester United sessions will have be played out like a game of walking football because his players are so tired.

I only read Big Website of course (ahem), but on the few occasions I approach the rest of the internet looking for information, my favourite type of article is rapidly becoming famous footballers ‘colloborating with brands’, lowering themselves to hawking rubbish for money they don’t even need and trying to justify it on the basis that they co-designed ‘the perfect bag’ with such deep insights into the creative process like ‘I travel so much and I wanted something which had lots of pockets. You have to have deep pockets’” – Noble Francis.

Having seen the quote from PSV’s defender Ryan Flamingo in yesterday’s Bigger Cup Corner, I couldn’t help but wonder if they might not have needed such a comeback from 2-0 down had Ryan not been standing on one leg” – Nick Jeffery.

It must have come as something of a shock to young Chelsea fans to see serial Chelsea badge-kisser Frank Lampard turning out in a Hammers shirt in Thursday’s Football Daily. Now the old boy is off to Ryton, to coach the 1987 FA Cup winners. Imagine next season. Lampard’s Chelsea reserves versus potentially Ruud van Nistelrooy’s Leicester in the M69 derby. It won’t just be the managers wondering what the M69 is, or why it is a derby” – Steve Roberts.

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