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He goes from distance and oh my goodness!

Timothy Weir opens up his tally with Yventis with an absolute scream up. And that was Tim Weyer's first ever goal Ventus and what a stonker it was not to be hyperbolic

Oh, but we're winning the 2026 World Cup. There is no doubt it's Friday it's Roger and we made it not only just to the end of

another week but the beginning of another year something that's never a given

and yes I know that our world is dark and full of terror, but hey,

we've got a weekend film with FA Cup third round wonder to savour.

So that's not nothing. And after the hectic feast, it was the

Premier League stuffing field holiday schedule, we can now revel in the distinct pleasure, the different pleasure, let's say, of this distinguished,

yeah, for being honest, quasi andachronistic tournament,

but it's still the oldest in the the world founded back when Roy Hodgson was merely a street

scamp in 1871.

You know, I've said this before a couple of times, but the tournament back when I was a kid was enormous mostly

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