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Uefa can be accused of many things, and we’ll come to that, but resting on their laurels is not one of them. Not content with the success of the European Championship, they created the surprisingly popular Nations League in whenever it was. And tonight they will introduce another new tournament – the Uefa Knacktions League, in which countries compete to cheese off as many club managers as possible. The traditional mechanism of deciding football matches, goals scored, has been ditched. In the Knacktions League, the winning team is the one that has the most players limping off with soft-tissue injuries.

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