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The glaring mismatch in English football

2 November 2024

9:00 AM

2 November 2024

9:00 AM

Your starter for ten: who was the last English manager to win the top flight of English football? Treat yourself to a half-time pie and a mug of Bovril if you said Howard Wilkinson, who took the First Division championship with Leeds United in 1992, the final season before the formation of the Premier League.

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