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⚠️ Chelsea have lost 6 games in a row in Premier League… …with only 1 goal scored, and 14 conceded.

3-2 Mainoo

2-0 Sesko

1-0 Cunha

🚨 Michael Jackson will be Burnley’s interim manager until the end of the season, club statement confirms. Follows Scott Parker leaving with immediate effect.

There is a calm that only comes from having nothing to lose. Shubham Dubey has it. Since 2023, he has been the most destructive non-opener in the world. 544 runs, Average 49.45, Strike rate 181.33. Nobody with 500 plus runs has scored faster. Not one middle order batter. Against Bengal in 2023, Vidarbha needed 213. Dubey walked in as impact player. 58* in 20 balls with 6 sixes. Highest successful chase in their history. He made it look like a routine job. Last IPL, he took 22 off Pat Cummins. Next over, 22 off Adam Zampa. He treated them like net bowlers. That is what relentless practice does. A wide yorker becomes a half volley. A short ball disappears over mid wicket. His father sold paan at Kamal Square in Nagpur. The stall gave the family just enough to survive. Dubey bunked classes to play tennis ball cricket. Man of the Match meant money for the house. He learned to clear the rope before he learned to leave outside off. When a coach asked about academy fees, he cried. His family could not afford it. Sudeep Jaiswal, a local advocate, saved him. Before IPL money, he played for 6 months in Mumbai for Times Shield & earned 10000 rupees a month. Sent most home. Slept with 10 men in one room. Just young men with the same dream, breathing the same air, waiting for a break that might never come. Rajasthan Royals did not find him by accident. Zubin Bharucha, their Director of High Performance, runs a centre in Talegaon near Nagpur. Dubey went there once with his mentor Irfan Razzak. He was just watching. Watching Yashasvi Jaiswal practice. Watching how professionals train. He met Romi Bhinder, the team manager. He met Bharucha. They monitored his strike rates across grounds. Checked pace, Checked spin, Checked failure. His base price was 20 lakh. Bidding stopped at 5.8 crore for him. Nearly 30 times. Royals needed a left-handed Indian finisher who could hit high velocity pace. The impact player rule has been good for him & he has been good for it. Against Punjab Kings yesterday, chasing 223, he came in. 31* in 12 balls. Strike rate 258. Faced Arshdeep, Jansen & Ferguson, All international bowlers & smashed all of them. He floats now. Sometime Number 5, sometimes Number 6 or 7. Depends on the situation. Depends on who is bowling. Most finishers want a set role. Dubey just wants to bat. Dubey would have been another tall boy in Nagpur who used to play cricket. Another paan seller's son who had a dream. India produces thousands of them. Most fade away. The system is designed to lose them. Too expensive. Too far from the centres. Too poor to afford the right connections. Dubey survived because a few people saw something & acted on it. That is the real story. Not the sixes. Not the 5.8 crore. The story of a boy who had every reason to quit & never did. Who slept in rooms with 10 other boys & kept believing. Who cried when asked for fees & still came back the next day. That is the finisher's mind. That is Shubham Dubey.

Choose wisely.

Starting to feel FSG are deliberately not giving an extension to the trio in an attempt to bring the wage budget down. They are also going to try and force alisson into a move away

"We have an opportunity to win four times against Liverpool in one season" Oliver Glasner ahead of his last trip to Anfield as Crystal Palace manager 🗣️

Club statement: Liam Rosenior