The Fiver | A 48-hour turps bender

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Charlton interim manager Karel Fraeye bears a slight facial resemblance to former Scotland coach Craig Levein. He’s not the spitting image of him or anything, but there’s a vague, ballpark similarity going on there. It’s more pronounced if you search out a picture of Fraeye wearing a pair of expensive designer spectacles, frowning quite hard, holding his head in his hands like he’s just off the back of a 48-hour turps bender, and staring at the floor while wearing the dazed look of a man who can’t for the life of him figure out how to break down Liechtenstein. Squint a little. Squint a lot. There! They’re not a million miles apart, are they? Although sadly for Charlton, the comparison ends there, because Fraeye’s results are so bad they make Levein look like Vittorio Pozzo.

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