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Well, Phil, you've just hot-footed it here to the studio from Thorpe Archbielse's press

conference.

What sort of form was he on today?

It was in good form. I feel about guilty, actually, because I was saying a few weeks back that the press conferences have descended, not into boredom, but kind of a bit of a mundane routine where Bielsa doesn't say very much, gives you a bit of team news, says that Adam Farshaws out for the foreseeable again.

But he was speaking at length today. He went on for a good 50 minutes.

And it seemed as if everything that we were asking him

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