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REBORN ASHLEY SHOWS THE WAY TO ADAPT

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IT ISN’T Ashley Williams’ fault that Everton chose to pay £10m for a player whose career had already peaked.
A European Championship semi-final with Wales. A League Cup at Swansea. Almost 600 games in his 32-year-old legs.
By the time Williams arrived at Goodison in the glorious afterglow of Euro 2016, he had probably one season of elite performance left in the tank.
The errors and indiscipline that blighted his time at Everton were the inevitable consequence of a body that can no longer translate the demands of the brain.
From the brawl he sparked against Lyon to the sens...

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