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The boy they couldn't buy

Ian Bell lauds the veteran Swede who in 10 weeks has shown English football up

Cliches are devices employed by the talentless to make genius manageable. We clods only make sense of the sublime with glib and meaningless phrases. Football, for whatever else it might be worth, proves the point.

Here's a recent favourite.