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The Football League Paper looks at the talking points for the new season so far
By Chris Dunlavy
TWO weeks into the new season and the EFL has already sprung a few surprises. Heading into the weekend, who thought Middlesbrough would be bottom of the Championship? Or that Stevenage would be steaming along at the business end of League One? Here are six early talking points to emerge from the nascent 2023-24 campaign…
MIDDLESBROUGH’S MISSING INGREDIENT
It would be easy to ascribe Boro’s early struggles to the absence of last year’s 29-goal hitman Chuba Akpom.
Akpom got the headlines, the golde...

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