LIAM MACKEY: Chelsea: The gift that really just keeps on giving

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LIAM MACKEY: Chelsea: The gift that really just keeps on giving

Has to be the English football writer who suggested that Eden Hazard’s encounter with Charlie Morgan had shone a light on the — I hope you’re sitting down for this — “hitherto innocuous world of elite-level ball retrieval.”

They certainly didn’t write ‘em like that before. And after the GUBU events at the Liberty Stadium this week, they probably won’t be writing ’em like that ever again, either.

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