Joe Moran’s
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I learned all sorts of wonderful factoids. Serendipitously, given that the late Colleen McCullough has been in the news recently, one was that the ending of the
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Many thanks for this, will look out for it. The Arsenal v Liverpool Cup Final of 1950 left me with a life long distrust of referees and on leave from the Army only one episode of The Grove Family to put me off soaps for life. Also, I blame TV for taking politics from the games field back to the nursery. As for Economics, oh dear oh dear oh dear.