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Michael Ricketts was signed by Middlesbrough from Bolton for £3.5m in a move that never worked out for the forward. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images
by Simon Burnton | Jan 18, 2017 | Sports
2003 Michael Ricketts, Bolton to Middlesbrough, £3.5m At 11.30pm on the first ever January transfer deadline day, Middlesbrough sealed the signing of the striker who was intended to revolutionize their team. “I was stuck in a rut at Bolton, training was the same all...
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Bubble trouble: ‘Dimitri Payet’s public utterances and body language, from summer onwards, have increasingly made it clear he had a roving eye.’ Photograph: Jason Mitchell/IPS/Rex/Shutterstock
by Daniel Taylor | Jan 17, 2017 | Sports
There is a passage in one of Sir Alex Ferguson’s latest books that seems deliberately designed to chop West Ham down to size and no doubt, as intended, would have pricked a few egos in the way he does better than anyone. What, Ferguson wanted to know, was “the West...
