What is the word you hear most at the moment? Strange? Surreal? Weird? Unprecedented? All of the above, I guess. So far 2020 has been an absolute Mikael Silvestre at centre-half. You know it's real, and there's not a lot you can do about it, you just want it to be over as soon as possible. Things are so bizarre that – and I never, ever in my lifetime thought I'd say this – Wayne Rooney has become the voice of reason when it comes to the issue of players taking pay cuts. Writing in The Times (£), he responded to further comments from Health Minister Matt Hancock about the idea of their wages being used to fund the salaries of other staff at football clubs: Whatever way you look at it,...
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