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Pre-season football is meaningless, I’ve said. Pre-season football should be taken with a grain of salt, I’ve said. Pre-season football can’t be used to measure the real season, I’ve said. And yet, after Arsenal dismantled a full-strength Chelsea, 4-0 with…

I have no idea what happened to my scissors. I have a nice pair of scissors that I use for trimming my beard and they seem to have disappeared. And I know that it’s about 99% likely that I put…

Pre-season friendlies can often be summed up by saying “what little we learned, we already knew”. More than a lesson, they are often a refresher. Like the first few weeks of math class, where you spend hours going over the…