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In the Fiver’s local, the Dog and Nihilism, it doesn’t take much to spark a profound, erudite, frequently fisticuff-based debate. All the big issues are up for discussion: Brexit, climate change, which R.E.M. album was the real return to form. Last night, as we supped a soothing pint of Emptiness Alleviator, we heard a shout from across the bar. “Ere, Fiver,” said our friend Protein Jim, “you reckon England have got a golden generation or what?” Before we could form a reply, Protein Jim was laid out by a crunching, right-handed counter argument from Micky the Drink, who accused of him of cursing the team by “associating them with that lot from Baden-Baden”.

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