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HERE’S THREE THINGS I’D LOVE TO SEE THE BACK OF…

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I WAS thinking recently about the things in football that I’d put in Room 101.
One of the first would be the prematch exercise of manager and captain visiting the referee’s room. I can scarcely remember a time where I felt that there was any added value in the few brief words spoken by the official normally in a cramped room filled with prematch tension.
Back in the day, the club secretaries exchanged the team sheets and that felt appropriate.
My second would be the toss of a coin. Why don’t we just let home clubs kick the way they want to kick, which keeps the ...

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