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This is the Football Daily with Ben Haynes.

Hello everyone, welcome along to the Football Daily.

Nader Manoa alongside me as always and with us today.

Kupi Zasmere Beggovich and the telegraphs Luke Edward, so much to get into today, but very quickly

Asmere saw your very nicely written tweet basically saying that the seasons come to a close and then I had

this sudden realization like you're a free man for a few weeks what do you do now?

Well then it's a good feeling I have to say it's been a long year.

It's nice to be free. We have, we actually today on Sunday we had some meetings and

end up season debriefs and we've got a couple things to do tomorrow, so

commercial stuff so not

officially free until Tuesday when we get to go on holiday and relax and finally

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