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It’s been another busy week for Gianni Infantino. The Fifa head honcho spent Sunday in Rabat looking slightly sheepish as he stood alongside Morocco’s Prince Moulay Rachid. After trying his best not to hand the Afcon trophy to Senegal’s players, Big G moved front and centre again to console Brahim Díaz and present him with the award for the worst penalty ever taken tournament’s top scorer. Having reassured Díaz that, as president of Fifa, he makes colossal errors of judgment all the time and nobody seems to mind, Infantino then jetted back to his Alpine lair to check on the chances of Morocco and Senegal meeting at the Geopolitics World Cup.
Thomas Frank ascribes Tottenham’s knack issues to being ‘cursed or something like that’, heedless of the traditional remedy of a judicious sacrifice” – Nick Coupland.
Best uberkacktor (yesterday’s Football Daily letters)? Surely to be the best own goal the scorer must forget which way they are playing. I give you the finest of the genre” – Haydn Pyatt.
In search of the kacktor to end all kacktors, in 2016, Sammy Ndjock of Minnesota United gave Bournemouth a 2-0 lead with this gem that became an early entry for a gif when you type in ‘own goal’” – Dave Shelles.
I enjoyed learning about ‘Kacktor des Monats’ (yesterday’s letters). Perhaps Herr Arntz could advise us if the Germans have a term for ‘crappy football email of the day’?” – Michael Bland.
Just to say how chuffed I am that you chose my entry as your ‘letter o’ the day’ yesterday. Apparently Arnd Zeigler and his team were equally chuffed when I pointed out to them he had made it into Football Daily” – Holger H Arntz.
Not normally being one who fully reads, let alone bothers to write in response to owt written in your daily diatribe, yesterday’s edition has sparked my wrath and I’ve finally decided that I must concoct – with my left thumb – a ‘letter’. You quoted that well-known actor Timotheéeeeee Chalamet paying homage to the ‘English north-east accent’. Excited by the statement, hailing from Sunderland, I started to read … only to learn he was referring to the Hull accent. Since when has Hull been in the north east? Have you ever been further north than Leeds, or Manchester? Please learn some geography and realise that the north east starts (probably) north of the River Tees, passes the Rivers Wear and Tyne, and actually reaches the Scottish Borders. Within that magnificent region there are probably 10 distinct accents and not one ‘actor’ could master one of them, let alone all – take Vera as an example” – Kev Richardson.
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