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OPINION

Modern Football Has Lost Its Edge

Our sports correspondent examines discipline, determination and the increasingly overlooked importance of a substantial pre-match lunch.

Derek Pritchard · Sample feature

Sports Correspondent

Derek Pritchard

Heavy-drinking, smoking, unfit and entirely convinced he remains an elite sportsman.

derek@lenientslacker.com