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Football Daily is feeling a bit green around the gills. It’s nothing to do with the eight cans of Pre-Season Optimism, our new favourite 9.2% Alcohol By Volume India Pale Ale, that disappeared last night. It’s because we’ve been instructed to watch this bleedin’ transfer merry-go-round for the last month and we’re starting to get a headache! That and the dehydration anyway. The merry-go-round will continue for another fortnight, but at least we’ll soon have some real football to distract us from the increasingly unnerving sight of a Sky Sports News panel discussing whether a player who hasn’t signed yet – and probably never will – has the ability to score 45 goals before the schools go back.

Great to see my grandfather popping up in the Football Daily recently with a snippet about his days as Kettering Town’s mascot (Friday’s Memory Lane, full email edition). Very much a self-appointed mascot too. Known to everyone as Tug, he spent more than a decade clad in a red friar’s habit, patrolling the touchline at Rockingham Road while clanking an old air-raid warden’s bell. Tug enjoyed unrestricted access to the home dressing room too, or so he decided, and even joined in goal celebrations. The brush with officialdom mentioned (yesterday’s Football Daily letters) was by no means his only clash with a referee – on another occasion the game was stopped to give him a talking to, as his dashes down the wing were confusing a linesman into raising his flag. Truly they don’t make them like that any more. Cheers” – Peter Wilson.

I’m puzzled as to why Yves Bissouma was recorded inhaling nitrous oxide (yesterday’s News, Bits and Bobs, full email edition). Surely two seasons watching the Spurs defence at close quarters would have produced sufficient side-splitting hilarity without needing to turn to artificial help” – Alan Giles.

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