The Fiver | Belching out a few questionable emissions

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BIG FUN

So far it’s turning out to be another wonderful season of Big Cup action for English football fans. For some reason, most of the media in this country start their work by assuming the majority of folk are desperately unhappy to witness Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United stumble around Europe like drunk sailors on the dockside looking for a match to light their damp cheroot and the bit of rope that once held up their trousers. They’re not that unhappy, though, are they, if the bellows of laughter pealing across the country from Barrow to Bognor Regis are anything to go by. In fact, to date, the whole shebang seems to have been considered a marvellous wheeze. On the whole, it’s going down very well.

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