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�* injured a person shot and severely injured a person who was wielding an axe and head of today's euro 2024 match. —— ahead of today's euro 2024 match. —— ahead of today's euro 2024 match. a peace summit on ukraine closes with the final declaration committing to ukraine's territorial integrity. israel announces an hour—long pause in military activity along a road in southern gaza but not in the city of rafah. and princes george and louis, and princess charlotte pay a father's day tribute to prince william in a post on social media. hello, i'm rajini vaidyanathan. police in the german city of hamburg have shot and severely injured a person who threatened them with an axe near a fan zone for dutch supporters ahead of today's euro 2024 match between poland and the netherlands. these pictures show a man wielding an axe, being confronted by police. they use pepper spray,
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and then fire several shots. this video doesn't capture all of those shots fired, there were more. we've paused them at the moment when some of those gun shots were fired. german authorities have put police on high alert during the euros tournament. here's a spokesperson for the hamburg police, speaking shortly after the incident. translation: according to what we know now, a man came out of a restaurant. he obviously had a molotov cocktail in his hand and also pickaxe. he also apparently tried to set fire to this molotov cocktail and then walked towards several people with it, including police officers who were on duty here at the time. and the police officers then made use of their firearms. we're assuming that this is an isolated case, which means that it's not football related. there's obviously no football connection, but we're dealing with an individual offender. and in this respect, i don't see any danger at all or any impact on the game today.
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i'v e i've just been i'vejust been reading i've just been reading the netherlands have begun their euro 2024 campaign with a 2—1win over poland. meanwhile, england are preparing for their opening game of the euros against serbia this evening. we can speak to our correspondent nick beake who is in gelsenkirchen. excitement hotting up ahead of england's debut much of the tournament.— england's debut much of the tournament. ., ., , ,., , tournament. hello, absolutely. some 40,000 england _ tournament. hello, absolutely. some 40,000 england fans _ tournament. hello, absolutely. some 40,000 england fans are _ tournament. hello, absolutely. some 40,000 england fans are estimated i tournament. hello, absolutely. somel 40,000 england fans are estimated to be descending on this city today. we are right in the heart of the place, this is one of the pubs where a lot of the fans have congregated, they have been hit quite a few hours now and i think they will remain here until they set off to the stadium which is to the north of this particular part of the city. as you were saying earlier, the german police, the german authorities, want this to be a tournament which is typified by people having lots of
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fun, but also they have talked about the security considerations and this particular match today between england and serbia is one that has been deemed to be high risk. why is that? on the one hand you have the police here saying that they think may be 500 known hooligans from serbia may have made their way here. is also a concern about who may have travelled from england, already some 2000 passports have been confiscated, people being told they cannot travel here, but the police are on high alert. there was some disturbance, footage on social media showing potentially what looked like serbia fans and some england fans, bottles being thrown at a restaurant just down the road. they hope is thatis just down the road. they hope is that is an isolated incident and does not set the tone for the day but certainly lots of police here and what we are told is about 1000 police officers and the working assumption, more than that, the plan is the two sets of supporters will
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be kept apart. is the two sets of supporters will be kept apart-— be kept apart. interesting, what more do we _ be kept apart. interesting, what more do we know— be kept apart. interesting, what more do we know about - be kept apart. interesting, what more do we know about the - more do we know about the preparations on the football side? yes, gareth southgate has been playing down expectations. england one of the key favourites for this tournament. really the team having come together over the past three years, with so many top—notch players, it is all about managing expectations. the fans here i think, i expect they are in high spirits, hoping england can get off to a really flying start today with a victory against serbia. that is the hope for what is happening on the field later. in terms of what is happening here, ithink field later. in terms of what is happening here, i think fans will be milling around for another a few hours or so. the question i think it is not all of the fans here have tickets to the match, so what do they do at that point? we know there are some british police here monitoring him is about, what is being said and done, and we should report it was a small number of
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fans, but probably 30, 40 singing and fans, but probably 30,40 singing and chanting a short time ago. one of the songs which relates to the second world war, which fifa and other footballing governing second world war, which fifa and otherfootballing governing bodies have asked england fans not to that has been sung. what we were that there was a german family and we asked what they thought about and they said they couldn't really understand it, it upset them. they hope is that if that happens it is very much in the minority and football is the big talking point this evening and into tomorrow morning. this evening and into tomorrow morninu. ., ~ ,, this evening and into tomorrow morninu. ., ~' ~ this evening and into tomorrow morninu. ., ~ ~ , morning. thank you. we will be back with ou morning. thank you. we will be back with you as — morning. thank you. we will be back with you as the _ morning. thank you. we will be back with you as the kick-off _ morning. thank you. we will be back with you as the kick-off gets - morning. thank you. we will be back with you as the kick-off gets ever . with you as the kick—off gets ever closer but for the moment, thank you very much. as always, plenty of england fans have travelled to the host country to show their support. let's speak to kunal sapat who is an ?england supporter. hello, where exactly are you? we are
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in bochum which _ hello, where exactly are you? we are in bochum which is _ hello, where exactly are you? we are in bochum which is not _ hello, where exactly are you? we are in bochum which is not too _ hello, where exactly are you? we are in bochum which is not too far- hello, where exactly are you? we are in bochum which is not too far from i in bochum which is not too far from gelsenkirchen. a good area for food and drink before the game, a lot of england fans and we are looking forward to the game tonight. haw england fans and we are looking forward to the game tonight. how do ou think forward to the game tonight. how do you think the — forward to the game tonight. how do you think the team _ forward to the game tonight. how do you think the team will— forward to the game tonight. how do you think the team will do? - forward to the game tonight. how do you think the team will do? we - forward to the game tonight. how do you think the team will do? we had i you think the team will do? we had nick saying gareth southgate is downplaying the team's expectations will stop serbia, it will not be easy, they will give us a tough run but i think we can get the three points in the first game and that will put us in good stead for the last two games. i think we will win but i do not think it will be easy. i think serbia will give us a tough game. this i think serbia will give us a tough came. �* , ., i think serbia will give us a tough came. ~ , . ., game. as we heard then, there are thousands of _ game. as we heard then, there are thousands of people _ game. as we heard then, there are thousands of people who _ game. as we heard then, there are thousands of people who have - game. as we heard then, there are thousands of people who have not | thousands of people who have not been as lucky as you to get their hands on a ticket, how does it feel to be there, how are you all feeling right now? we to be there, how are you all feeling riaht now? ~ ., to be there, how are you all feeling riaht now? ~ . ., . right now? we are all excited, buzzinu. right now? we are all excited,
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buzzing. some _ right now? we are all excited, buzzing. some of— right now? we are all excited, buzzing. some of us _ right now? we are all excited, buzzing. some of us got - right now? we are all excited, buzzing. some of us got up i right now? we are all excited, buzzing. some of us got up at| right now? we are all excited, . buzzing. some of us got up at the crack of dawn _ buzzing. some of us got up at the crack of dawn this _ buzzing. some of us got up at the crack of dawn this money - buzzing. some of us got up at the crack of dawn this money to - buzzing. some of us got up at the crack of dawn this money to get l crack of dawn this money to get flight _ crack of dawn this money to get flight out — crack of dawn this money to get flight out so we are tired but excited — flight out so we are tired but excited for tonight. that flight out so we are tired but excited for tonight.— excited for tonight. that is dedication _ excited for tonight. that is dedication for _ excited for tonight. that is dedication for you. - excited for tonight. that is dedication for you. tell - excited for tonight. that is dedication for you. tell us | excited for tonight. that is - dedication for you. tell us about the situation _ dedication for you. tell us about the situation with _ dedication for you. tell us about the situation with security - dedication for you. tell us about| the situation with security there, there is beefed up security because this is a massive tournament and the authorities want to make sure it can pass off safely, what have you seen and felt in your short time there? i got here to germany yesterday and there have been no issues. i went to there have been no issues. i went to the match yesterday, the italy albania game, because it was in the same area. did not see many issues there and in town with england fans, noissues there and in town with england fans, no issues so far. it has been relaxed, everyone is having a good time, everyone is having a drink, having food, singing songs, having a good time and it has been good fun and no issues at all so far. qm.
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and no issues at all so far. 0k, ho -e and no issues at all so far. 0k, hope you _ and no issues at all so far. 0k, hope you get — and no issues at all so far. 0k, hope you get some _ and no issues at all so far. 0k, hope you get some sleep and enjoy the match later. hope you get some sleep and en'oy the match later.�* hope you get some sleep and enjoy| the match later._ slightly the match later. thank you. slightly feeble england _ the match later. thank you. slightly feeble england chance _ the match later. thank you. slightly feeble england chance there. - the match later. thank you. slightly feeble england chance there. let's i feeble england chance there. let's move on to some other international news now. more than two years since russia's invasion of ukraine and world leaders have been gathering in switzerland for a summit aimed at pressuring moscow to end the conflict. russia was notably absent from the meeting. as the two—day event concluded, ukraine's president volodymr zelensky said he hoped that results could be achieved as soon as possible. the final declaraton signed by dozens of countries said it was committed to ukraine's territorial integrity. some countries didn't sign up to the document including india, south africa and saudi arabia. here is the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky, speaking in the past hour. i thank all the participants of the first summit for taking the first steps
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towards peace together. we are responding to russia's full—scale invasion of ukraine, not only with a full—scale defence of human life but also with full—scale diplomacy. these days, united, 101 countries and international organisations have big success for ukraine and all partners, and our objective is to get all countries of the world to join this noble cause. previous political generations have left us the un charter as a basis for the cooperation of peoples. we will pass to the next generations an effective mechanism to implement the un charter and the communique adopted and the summit these days fully reflects our intention and remains open for accession by everyone who respects
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the un charter. that is president zelensky there. we also heard from ursula von der leyen, the president of the european commission. let's hear her thoughts. ultimately, it will be for ukraine to determine the conditions of a just peace. the european union will support you in this and it will continue to rally support across the globe. we can build on the un general assembly resolution of february 2023. it clearly expressed the need for comprehensive and lasting justice and peace. this resolution was approved by 141 countries, the vast majority of whom joined this summit. and i call on russia to heed the message of the international community, respect the territorial integrity and sovereignty of ukraine, put an end to imperialist violence and bring
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back the children. when russia says it is ready for peace based on the un charter, then the time will come for russia to be part of our efforts to bring the path to peace to its destination and i hope, and i work for this day to come soon. that is ursula von der leyen there. i spoke to our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford who's who's in switzerland. the fact that so many countries came together here at this lakeside resort in switzerland is already an important moment in this war in ukraine. it has been more than two years in ukraine itself,
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that whole process has been devastating, thousands and thousands of people killed, many injured and a war that at this point shows no sign of ending. this is really ukraine seizing the initiative and saying look, we have always said we want peace, we don't want war and this is how we think we can achieve that. it now has switzerland on board as they host a process that is beginning tentative first steps here but hope it can go a lot further. we have just heard from president zelensky himself talking about who is here, the support they have had. they have signed a communique, a few countries did notjoin, president zelensky said he was not worried by that and he thought when they got higher levels of support they would join, but it was noticeable it was countries like saudi arabia and mexico and others who have spoken out more who did not sign up. i think it is an important first step and i think president zelensky himself mentioned so many countries were here and he is calling that a great success, but russia and china were not
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here and it is a long way to go until you can call this a successful summit. now it's time for a look at today's sport. including all that build—up to england's debut in the euros. thank you. we will talk about england shortly. we are going to start with the european championship. the netherlands have made a winning start after beating poland, only just. they had to do it the hard way, coming from a goal down. adam giving poland the lead afterjust 60 minutes. a dream start for them. no robert lewandowski, but the netherlands went behind for long. a bit of good fortune with that goal, taking a deflection. seeking a winner, off the bench and an instant
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impact. with minutes to go, the striker scoring the winner and so it that final score in hamburg 2—1 to the dutch. attention will turn to group c, denmark take on slovenia and the runners—up from three years ago, england, get their campaign under way against serbia. very tough. they have good individual players, fantastic collective spirit, dangerous forwards, so we know this is a really difficult opening game for us and we have to play at our very best to win the game. next to tennis, where britain's jack draper has won his first atp tour title after beating the former wimbledon finalist matteo berrettini in the final of the stuttgart 0pen. draper, 22, the new british number one lost his previous two atp finals but this was third time lucky against berrettini, twice
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a champion in stuttgart. the italian won the opening set but draper fought back to win the next two and he now goes up to 32 in the world and a potential seeded position for wimbledon which starts in a couple of weeks. alex de minaur has won in straight sets. the australian's ninth career title. in the last hour, in the all british semifinal at the nottingham open, emma raducanu has lost to the defending champion, kc boulter, in three sets. she will now face pliskova, and these matches are stacked up because of the wet weather on saturday. 0ne match under
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way at the t20 world cup, pakistan against ireland. ireland put in to bat, 46 wickets down in florida. a real instant impact on the first couple of overs in particular, as you can see, ireland find themselves 41-6, in you can see, ireland find themselves 41—6, in trouble afterjust eight overs. bangladesh meet nepal later. should they lose, the netherlands can climb above them in the table with victory over a witness shall anchor side —— sri lanka side. the fourth round of the us open
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is under way in north carolina, the leader is well positioned to win. rory mcllroy is looking to end a run of ten years without a major. you can follow the latest on the bbc sport website. we will keep you updated. that is all for now. thank you very much. here in the uk, the shadow health secretary wes streeting has said he would have liked labour to have been more ambitious in its plans for social care in its election manifesto. in an interview this morning, he acknowledged that successive governments of all parties had failed to deal with the problems in the sector. a leading health think tank warned that the nhs is facing its tightest spending for decades and called on all the main parties to be more transparent about that. hannah miller reports. good morning, how are we doing? keir starmer campaigning this weekend, claiming he will get the nhs back on its feet. but that will require more ambitious treatment, says a leading health tank as it warns both the conservatives and labour that their current manifesto commitments amount to the tightest spending
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plans in nhs history. with a lack of social care support one of the key reasons the nhs is struggling, today, labour had to defend why it has not come up with a clearer plan for reform. you are still offering people a vague we'll talk about it, we'll maybe fix it in the long—term. i think in being honest with people, that building a national care service is work that is a decade in the making. that is honest and that is where the credibility comes from. i make no bones about the fact of course on social care i would have wanted the manifesto to be more ambitious, but to get policies in the manifesto, you had to run the gauntlet of answering two fundamental questions — can we keep this promise, can the country afford this promise? the conservatives' plan to limit social care costs to a maximum of £86,000 has been repeatedly delayed, with questions about its funding. but they're still claiming labour have tried to spend
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more of your morning. —— more of your money. i think he has let the cat out of the bag a bit about labour's plans. he confirmed both on your show and one he did earlier that their manifesto was not the whole story — it was not actually a programme for government, it was a document to get them through the election campaign. he confirmed that there are more spending promises to come, and that can only one thing — it means more taxes. both labour and the conservatives are signed up to a plan to bring in thousands more staff to the nhs, which would require funding to increase significantly to almost £200 billion by 2028. but this is the level of funding they've allocated in their manifestos — around £20 billion less. the nuffield trust says it amounts to tougher spending plans than even during austerity. the liberal democrats have pledged very slightly more, but still way below what is required. that liberal democrat figure does not include their separately—costed plans for free personal care
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for those who need it. if you do not support family carers, as well as care workers, you are not going to sort this out. and i am absolutely passionate that we will do that. we have come forward with probably the most ambitious agenda on it. i'm really excited about it. and because we have talked about it, we have had a really strong reaction from people. politicians from all parties have said they need to work together to address the social care challenge. the question is who voters trust more and whether anyone will deliver. hannah miller, bbc news. now let's turn to the israel — gaza war. the israeli military has announced what it's calling a daily "tactical pause of military activity" along a key road in a part of southern gaza, but it emphasised that there is no ceasefire and combat would continue in the city of rafah. it says the halt in operations are between 8am and 7pm every day to enable humanitarian aid to be delivered to palestinians. aid organisations have repeatedly
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warned of a humanitarian crisis in gaza. the un say they welcome the announcement. the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has said the war should continue regardless. 0n the palestinian side, the hamas controlled health ministry in gaza says 37,337 people have been killed since the start of the israeli military offensive. a short while ago i spoke tojon donnison about what a tactical pause means. i'm not sure it means too much of a change, really. certainly we have been getting very mixed messages from the israeli military today. we woke up first thing this morning to hear news of this tactical military pause that apparently would take place daily between the hours of eight o'clock in the morning and seven o'clock in the evening and that was to allow aid to pass in through
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the kerem shalom crossing from israel into gaza which is right in the south of gaza, very close to rafah, and then to travel along towards the salah al—din road, which is the main road which stretches right from the north of gaza to the south. however, within about an hour, we had a clarification from the israeli military who said that this did not mean an end to fighting in rafah or in southern gaza and we had some very strong comments from israel's national security minister, the hardline right—winger itamar ben—gvir who said whoever made the decision for a pause in fighting was both evil and a fool. wow, strong words there, then. i mean, one of the main questions is what difference this might make for much—needed humanitarian aid. it is certainly desperately needed, you have the united nations saying
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more than a million people in gaza facing starvation within a matter of weeks. israel maintains that it is allowing trucks into gaza, it says it is allowing around about 200 trucks in through kerem shalom every day and that the problem is on the other side of the border where aid agencies are failing to pick those trucks up and distribute the aid. of course, aid agencies say it is too dangerous in many cases to do so because kerem shalom is so close to rafah. you have to remember of course that the border with egypt, the rafah crossing, that is closed entirely because israeli forces have now taken control of that whole border and there is a huge backlog of trucks, thousands of them on the egyptian side of the border waiting to pass in. the aid agencies maintain there simply isn't enough aid getting into gaza at the moment, israel rejects the idea that there is any sort
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of humanitarian crisis there. the prince and princess of wales have released an official photograph to mark father's day. the picture, taken by catherine on a beach in norfolk, shows prince william wearing a baseball cap with his arms around his three children. i spoke to our correspondent charlotte gallagher. "we love you, papa, happy father's day." there's a little pink emoji, don't usually get emojis on posts by the royal family, and then they've got their initials, which are of course g, c and l. it's a photo of them at a beach in norfolk, they've got their backs to the camera, they are looking out to sea. the family have a home in norfolk and we believe this was done on a day trip to the coast. as you said, the picture was taken by their mum, the princess of wales. and then of course we've had another photo as well from the family today, prince william has paid tribute to his father, the king of course, and he's published a photo of them
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together in 1984 when prince william was a toddler and they are playing football in the garden at kensington palace and prince william is smiling and laughing, wearing little dungarees, and then charles is in a suit, and i think you can really see the difference in the two photos, that in the photo that's been published today, that was taken quite recently of prince william, he's wearing a baseball cap, he's wearing a hoodie, he's wearing shorts, and it's a very casual family photo. the photo of the king, then prince charles, he's wearing a suit, he's wearing shoes, and they didn't tend to have these very casual, relaxed photos like they do now. but the royalfamily, they've kind of moved with the times, like most people have, and they do these more relaxed photos, more intimate photos and people really get a glimpse of their life. of course there is more in all of the days news on the bbc news website. i will be back after a short break so do stay with us here on the bbc news. hello there, good afternoon. for many of us, it is a bit
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drier and a little warmer than it was yesterday. the wind not quite so strong towards the south. still some more showers around, mostly out towards the east. some of those heavy and thundery, such as this beautiful cumulonimbus cloud, as captured by weather watcher in suffolk. but lots of sunny spells, too. still the chance of some heavy, persistent rain towards the north. and that band of rain has been sinking southwards from northern central scotland into southern scotland and northern england, taking a lot of cloud with it as we head through the afternoon. brightening up somewhat across northern central areas of scotland, some showers, remaining rather cloudy, though, across northern ireland. sunshine and showers for the rest of england and wales. most of those showers out towards the east tending to be drier towards the south. we could see highs here of 20 celsius. but along with the best of the sunshine, of course, today comes some high or very high pollen levels. as we head through this evening and overnight, that band of cloud and showery rain continues to weaken. it pushes further southwards, some clear skies towards the north of that. showers for eastern scotland, cloudy for northern ireland,
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clear spells, too, towards the south of that band of cloud. and where we see the clearer skies, temperatures are likely to drop back into single figures, so locally, quite a chilly start to the day tomorrow. and then on monday, our area of low pressure is pulling out into the north sea. still some showers for eastern areas of scotland down through north—east england too. in fact, the chance of an isolated shower almost anywhere. remaining cloudy across northern ireland. temperatures where we see the best of the sunshine and again, it should be largely dry out towards the south of england, could get into the low 20s celsius. but it's across southeast england where we could start the day on tuesday with some outbreaks of rain and some more cloud that will gradually clear away again. some showers developing, particularly towards eastern areas as we head through the afternoon on tuesday. it's really quite cold across the north of scotland with quite a brisk northerly wind blowing here. so temperatures remaining on the cool side, still the low 20s towards the south. and then high pressure starts to build in from the southwest, from the azores as we head through the middle of the week. always the threat of a bit of rain
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this is bbc news, the headlines... police in the german city of hamburg have shot and severely injured a person who threatened them with an axe near a fanzone for dutch supporters ahead of today's euro 2024 match between poland and the netherlands. the israeli military says it will hold a daily "tactical pause of military activity" along a road in southern gaza to enable more humanitarian aid to enter, but emphasised that there is no ceasefire and combat would continue in rafah. dozens of countries attending this weekend's ukraine peace summit have used the final communique to commit to ukraine's territorial integrity,
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although recognising that all parties are needed to end the war. russia was not invited. 0ther other countries, including india and south africa did not sign up to the deck relation. and prince george, princess charlotte and prince louis post a father's day tribute to their father, prince william, in their first social media post. now it's time for today's sunday episode of newscast with laura kuenssberg and paddy o'connell. newscast from the bbc. hello, it's laura in the studio. it's paddy in the studio. and i'm so relieved that you didn't ask me about whatever they've changed to do with football, something or other, because i would have had to try to have a stab at it, and it would have been embarrassing for all concerned. there's a lot of politicians bigging up their love of football. 0h, crikey! which i actually... do you know what, i'm always trying to say i'm not cynical. it's fine if it's authentic.
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