The Fiver | Scrabbling around the bottom of the Championship

In today’s Fiver: Blackeye Rovers, Pep gets the fear and Britain’s Ryan Giggs

It breaks The Fiver’s heart to see Blackeye Rovers suffering like this. After all, it’s only two short decades since future Liverpool and England supremo Mr Roy left them bottom of the Premier League and without a hope in hell of escaping releg … hold on, this is an extremely bad example … since Kenny Dalglish inspired them to their first English title since 1914. Happy days! Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton up front, of course, but there were other heroes too: Colin Hendry, Tim Flowers, Matthew Simmons, Andy Cole … the list goes on and on. Twenty-two years, though. The Fiver feels so very old. The Fiver is so very old. Bah! Sob! Here, these antidepressants don’t have much of a half-life.

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