Football Daily | Jorginho v Chappell Roan and another normal weekend on the internet

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Hands up who had Jorginho v Chappell Roan on their bingo cards this weekend? Ah, who’s Chappell Roan, you ask? It’s a fair question if you’re a reader as long in the tooth as this tea-timely email. Pink Pony Club anyone? Ah. Well, Football Daily hasn’t had to do any research at all, nope, to tell you that she’s a flamboyant 28-year-old synth pop singer-songwriter from the USA USA USA who is so popular with the kids that she has eight gazillion followers on Instachat and fans including the former Chelsea and current Flamengo star’s stepdaughter. Those followers may number 7,999,997 after the weekend, mind, when Jorginho took to his social media disgrace of choice to lash out at Roan, claiming one of her security guards made his stepdaughter cry after speaking “in an extremely aggressive manner” to her and his wife at a São Paulo hotel.

Is there a better walk home from a Premier League ground, I wonder? After watching Brighton beat Liverpool, I walked back from the Amex to Lewes: up the Downs, along the top of the South Downs Way, down into historic Southover past the Anne of Cleves House, through beautiful Grange Gardens, up past Lewes Castle, the Pells Pools, and over the River Ouse, to South Malling. Countryside and then Historic England. About two hours of bliss. Followed by a good walk” – Peter Harris (and no other ramblers).

I’ve been reading and hearing Thibaut Courtois’s name for almost 15 years now and it only just struck me that it might be a derivative of ‘Tybalt’. Did we ever get Lukaku rounding Courtois and finishing in an open net to prompt a ‘Romelo slew Thibaut’ line from a pundit or writer? Or perhaps there are some other Pro Evo-style Shakespeare quotes I missed?” – Kristian Karamfiles.

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