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There a quite a few chin-stroking veterans of the poker circuit who like to tell you that it is possible to learn a lot about life from time at the table.

They tend to be the kind of people who, whatever situation they find themselves in, think they could write a book about it.

Whilst not denying there are certainly lessons to be learned at the table, they are almost solely about individual character and are not the kind of life changing moments that will leave you face up in a field, staring at the heavens with a boosted sense of wonder.

In some ways, the lessons you learn at the table can be the opposite to those picked up in …

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Not since the jellied eel draught of 1952 had there been such wailing and gnashing of teeth in the East End of London Town.

But the day Paul Ince posed in a Manchester United shirt whilst still a West Ham player will never be forgotten by those unforgiving citizens of Upton Park.

The man they once feted as the Guvnor takes his new Blackburn Rovers side back to his old stomping ground and to say there may be a few fireworks is putting it mildly.

Ince returned as a player to Upton Park on several occasions, each time to a reception normally associated with that of the Pope rocking up at a Glasgow Rangers supporters club meeting.

But this time, instead of being out …

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