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Extraordinary goings-on at Bordeaux. First Gus Poyet blasts the board for selling the striker Gaetan Laborde to Montpellier without telling him – “It’s a disgrace what the club has done today. We arrived at the hotel and Laborde was not there. We called him and he was in Montpellier. Nobody told me anything” – then the board sack Poyet for his insolence, and now apparently the players are refusing to train in protest at the decision. Chaos!
True fact: today is Black Cat Appreciation Day. So, any favourite Sunderland goals? Or any other black cat/football intersectional stories?
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Written by Simon Burnton
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