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On British television there are many opportunities for time-wasting, but few are as abject as ‘fantasy football’. On the diminishing occasions when it is not possible to track down a televised game to watch, or at least a soap opera about footballers and their wives, teams can be invented and, through a process of weighted averages, compared using the scores from actual games. The sense that humanity is undergoing de-evolution generated by watching this programme is not redeemed by the blather of the presenter, a man whose lack of talent was already clear in 1977 when he was rejected at an audition for the seminal proto-punk band, The
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