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Our brave boys are home from their needlessly long pre-season tours to USA USA USA, allowing us to make decisions on what will definitely happen in the Premier League this season via the classic editorial concept of ‘five things we learned’.

I just read it in the news. I would try to do my speeches at half-time shorter” – Pep Guardiola says stop jabbering on about inverted full-backs for quite so long in his team talks after learning Manchester City have been fined £2m for being late back on the pitch too often.

Re: Memory Lane in Friday’s full email edition. To borrow a joke from the Simpsons, when Ronald McDonald was asked about the time he played football at clown college, he replied ‘I’ll thank you not to refer to Arsenal that way’” – Ed Coutts.

You report the Brighton chief suit as saying that ‘in terms of his contribution on the pitch Pascal [Gross] goes down as the club’s greatest-ever Premier-League signing’ (Thursday’s News, Bits and Bobs). I am forced to wonder if there is a subtle qualification here, with some pre-EPL star the real GOAT. And, indeed, to ask whether any club has valued players for their off-the-pitch efforts. What other contribution is a player supposed to make?” – Trevor Field.

If Emile Smith Rowe wanted to get to Fulham ‘as quickly as possible’, I recommend taking the Piccadilly line from Arsenal to Hammersmith and then the 220 bus, getting off at Kingswood Road, followed by an eight minute walk to Craven Cottage. He should get plenty of change from £34m too” – Peter Shearer. Continue reading...

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