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My name's Stevie Middleton and I'm a BBC Commissioner for a load of sport podcasts.

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pundits and the biggest sports stars.

Together we bring you untold stories and fascinating insights straight from the player's mouths.

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What that means is that we can bring you podcasts that create a real connection to dedicated sports fans across the UK.

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This podcast includes strong language.

The thing in front of me seemed human.

It was tall and thin, and it seemed to be wearing some kind of ragged suit, as if the

fabric had decayed and rotted away over time. The eyes didn't seem to blink, and they had a huge,

glassy quality, wet like the eyes of a big fish. They sat on a hairless head above a nose that seemed to have receded

back into the face, leaving just a dark black hole, and beneath that, the mouth looked as if it had been

stretched sideways right across the front of the skull. But the lips were full and slack and wet and they seemed to be constantly in

motion, as if this thing were trying to speak but lacked the ability to produce sound.

Somehow, my hand found the door handle behind me, and I wrenched the door open and ran.

There were more of them in the corridors, looming shapes in the darkness,

shuffling around slowly like they were unused to moving on dry land. I made it to the emergency

stairs my only thought to get out of the building. It kept occurring to me that I might be

dreaming, but I'd never had a nightmare this vivid or physical,

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