Maurizio Sarri:

“Anybody who plays a game started doing it as a child for fun and the child in us must be nurtured because this often makes us the best.

To create play that is fun is the first thing to obtain a style for a high-level squad.”

#cfc #utc www.theguardian.com/football/…

“Rooting for the underdog is a form of moral weakness”

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RT @NancySinatra: Finally, a (not retiring) Republican Congressman admits Trump is being manipulated by Putin www.dailykos.com/story/201…

I scored 9 out of 12 on a BBC Quiz

A bit disappointed, to be honest

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RT @ruskin147: Wonderful article- does anyone seriously believe life was better in the 1950s? If so I’m coming round with a can of spam to…

It wasn’t me, but my best friend he asked

#PostASongLyricYouLove

I hadn’t noticed before but the jolly fellow on the label is possibly a reference to the green (ish) man above the Wyndham Arms, where the Hopback started

I must admit…if someone says the words ‘crop circle ' I tend to think of this

It’s perhaps also a nod to Regards Presley of the Troggs, who was local and into crop circles

#TodayILearned that the pattern of the carpets in Andover Wetherspoons is inspired by the crop circles that proliferate around here

“The lesson of that story is that only a fool accepts the evidence of his own memory as gospel

The lesson of this story is…we are all fools”

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Britain’s seaside shelters – in pictures

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One magical, slightly drunken old evening we stumbled into the courtyard of what was then the Chough Hotel in Salisbury, and found one of the McGann brothers singing the hits with an acoustic guitar

Would have seemed rude to ask which McGann he was

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My word of the day today is ‘scamper’

#TodayILearned that, in the original pitch, Friends was titled ‘The Insomnia Cafe’

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#TodayILearned that Lennie Godber’s first TV role was arresting Ena Sharples

This tweet will only make sense to English people ‘of a certain age’

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#TodayILearned that 97% of the food and drink that we import is from the EU

#WeAreAllGoingToStarve

#INeedToLoseAFewPounds

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RT @susie_dent: My word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’: a 19th century wooden toy puppet whose limbs jerk about at the whim of the puppet ma…

RT @lockhart_flaws: You try knocking off 5 days before the start of your official holiday and see if you’ve got a job to come back to

RT @GylesB1: So was it was Hillary down in Salisbury with the phial of poison?

Andrew Neil @afneil Astonishing Trump/Putin press conference: Trump doubts U.S. intelligence, endorses Putin denial of meddling in 2016 US election. Trump refuses to denounce Russian meddling. When Putin denies meddling, Trump nods