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2 years

Ballon D’Or award ? Hard to take seriously. Sorry.

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4 years

Has it come to this for commentary-starved commentators?

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4 years

Home-spun commentary on Bundesliga. Strange days indeed.

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1 year

Have just woken in Doha to hear the shocking news that Grant Wahl has passed. The game in America was lucky to be served by such a brilliant journalist and , in my time covering the US men’s and women’s teams , a kind and helpful companion. I can’t quite believe this. RIP Grant.

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1 year

Arguably the greatest World Cup Final ever. Absolute blockbuster.

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3 years

Jurgen Klopp said to be “ furious” as Premier League says “ no” to 5 subs. Number of subs used by Liverpool v Spurs ....none !

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4 months

It was 8 minutes past midnight before VAR confirmed that it is, indeed, 2024.

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1 year

By the way , why do we need a 48-team World Cup ? It is meant to be the cream of world football - not a lucky dip where everyone gets a go.

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2 years

Their team is 5-0 down at home , so how about this from Sporting fans ?

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6 years

Neymar’s amateur dramatics are embarrassing.

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1 year

Has anyone rung the hospital to see how Harry Kane is today ?

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1 year

When FIFA move to a 48-team World Cup in 2026, the format is absolutely crucial to get right. Anything that dilutes the levels of jeopardy and drama should be rejected. So forget 3-team groups. Horrible idea.

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2 months

From a strictly neutral view , it feels at times as if VAR is using a fine tooth comb to find a reason to disallow goals. That Liverpool one would have stood in every single year pre 2020. Overthinking it all.

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3 years

Man Utd , Man City , Chelsea , Arsenal , Spurs and Liverpool are facing a mutiny from disgusted fans. Owners of these clubs obviously neither know nor care about the history and tradition of English football. “ Super” ? More like scandalous. Hang your heads in shame.

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1 year

End of an eighth World Cup for me. Stories and shocks everywhere you look. Still the greatest football show on the planet. Sadly overshadowed for many of us in the media by the premature loss of a great colleague and journalist , Grant Wahl.

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2 years

Always love the World Cup so very happy to join the Fox commentary team led by John Strong in Qatar. Kind of ESPN to allow me out on loan

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1 year

Think what we are possibly seeing in Doha is a minor changing of the guard in world football. Rising forces in Asia . Africa and … yes , USA. Good for the game.

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3 years

Cavani ban is draconian . He used the offending word as the term of affection it is in his homeland and then withdrew the tweet when situation was explained to him. A slap on the wrists and fine would have been common sense.

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3 years

Just hoping and praying Christian Eriksen pulls through.

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1 year

Am thinking back to a lovely night in Manhattan when Grant invited me and @AlexiLalas round to dinner and we talked and laughed and put the world to rights. That is a poignant memory now.

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1 year

Suggested law change for next season. Only the captain can approach the referee. Anyone else gets booked. Must stop this mass pressurising of officials - often aimed at getting opponents booked or sent off.

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5 years

The Judge who scored that fight by 4 points to Wilder should never be allowed near another fight. Outrageous card.

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1 year

Iran World Cup squad announcement delayed amid reported pressure on coach to drop star striker Azmoun and other players sympathetic to protests over repression of women in Iran. Big story.

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1 year

Better team won the football match. Errors in both penalty areas costly for USA. Third goal crucial cos USA were threatening an equaliser at time. Why didn’t Reyna start ? Far more guile with him.

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5 years

Chelsea players apparently “baffled by Sarri tactics”. Really ? They went 18 games unbeaten using them in the autumn. Is it him or them ?

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1 year

Commentators night out - Rae , Darke , Proudfoot , Holland , Brotherton , Drury and Smith.

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4 years

Great to have football back. Please cut all commentators bit of slack. Often working from home off difficult TV pictures and with as many as 32 players used. Doing our best.

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5 years

Crowd for Man City v Brighton FA Cup semi at Wembley - a disappointing 71,000. Pompey v Sunderland attracted 85,000 in Checkatrade Trophy last week !!!

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1 month

Anyone who believes Arsenal should have put on an all-singing , all-dancing display away to Manchester City has never managed a football team. Arteta’s job was to get something from the game , and he did. At this stage only results matter.

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1 year

Where are all those critics who hate international football right now ? Silent I think.

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16 days

Banning FA Cup replays ? Ye Gods. This is pathetic. Let’s get it right. Most clubs in the Premier League don’t play enough games. The FA started killing the Cup the year they allowed Man Utd to opt out. This decision is horrible for EFL clubs.

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2 years

The petition attempting to stop Anthony Taylor refereeing Chelsea in future is a total waste of time, and frankly a disgrace. One of our very best officials just had a bad day. Tip of big bad iceberg if clubs start trying to influence who refs them.

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1 year

One of the greatest World Cup team goals ever for Argentina by Di Maria. Joyful one touch football. Got me out of my seat.

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1 year

An unpopular question , but has the Premier League become a monster devouring everything around it ? It’s not healthy for the game if Europe’s other top leagues just become breeding grounds for PL clubs. Jan spending in PL - £815. In La Liga - £25m.

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4 years

Mystery how Jack Grealish could have been so sparkling against Wales - and then not play another minute in the next two games , even with the team crying out for a creator tonight.

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11 months

Hate to say it , but Europa final was a festival of what’s wrong with football. Players sprinting to ref to contest every decision, rampant gamesmanship, awful behaviour from benches. Law makers need to act. Sevilla won a truly ugly game - but football lost.

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3 years

Keep asking this question. Is football a better or worse spectacle with VAR ? The on-field decision was goal for Man U. Was there a clear and obvious error in that. I’d argue NOT.

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7 years

No team has a divine right to go to the World Cup. It has to be earned. USA did not earn it. No hard luck story here.

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1 year

What on Earth was wrong with Ecuador goal ?

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4 years

There are 71 clubs outside the Premier League in England. They are the real ones in the firing line from this crisis. Reliant on gate money of which there’s none. Coverage of their plight pretty sparse.

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5 years

Ajax have outplayed Juventus in the same way they outplayed Real Madrid. People who think they can’t win the Champions League are deluding themselves.

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4 years

I can reveal that Paul Dempsey’s commentary from home of Dortmund v Schalke in Bundesliga yesterday on @btsportfootball was nearly halted when a man from Tesco supermarket kept banging in his front door. Not much time to get the groceries between those 4 goals !!

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4 years

When this is all over , let’s stop giving gongs to celebrities, civil servants and tycoons and give them to the real heroes who save lives. Someone at every major hospital in UK should be knighted and nurses paid a lot more.

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3 years

Carlo Ancelotti turning his back on Everton will leave a sour taste. Fans and club will feel betrayed that he has abandoned the project.

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In an entire L1 season without VAR , I can not recall a single instance where any fans wished it was in operation.

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10 years

USA proved tonight how far they've come as a football power. Looked better team than Portugal.

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4 years

Kovacic second yellow a complete nonsense. Anomaly that VAR can not overule that.

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3 years

Rising tide against VAR. Sixteen months of it in England , and I’m pretty sure a poll of players , managers and fans would vote to scrap it. The core idea of correcting only MAJOR errors has been lost.

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5 years

Bizarre from India. Made no real attempt to get runs in last 10 overs. Defies explanation unless they’d rather have England than Pakistan in semis.

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2 years

Darwin Nunez would be an exciting replacement for Sadio Mane at Liverpool. Quick , dangerous , good in air , likes to attack from wide left. Also freshens up squad , which is important.

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3 years

Is today’s Tuchel love-in a little premature ? Who is to say Chelsea would not have taken 7 points from those last three games under Frank Lampard ? Admittedly a fine start , but let’s see if he matches Lampard’s top 4 finish.

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1 year

USA deserve to progress based on those 3 group games. Congratulations to coach and players. It’s not easy at all. Netherlands is tough but they let you play and USA are in with a shout.

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3 years

Very very surprised that Liverpool didn’t get that pen. Bailly gets ball but then wipes out Philips. Given nearly every other week these days.

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3 years

Who’d have thought it when Chelsea fans were ridiculing him a couple of seasons back, but Jorginho has to be a Ballon D’Or contender after winning the Champions League and Euros in 2021.

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1 year

@ESPNFC But nobody really cares.

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6 years

Arsenal fans are banned from any moans about the manager for a year at least. They wanted change. Here it is.

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5 years

Much deserved praise for the likes of Crystal Dunn , Megan Rapinoe and Rose Lavelle. But how about Abby Dahlkemper in her first World Cup for USA ? Cool, composed, consistently good defending.

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2 years

Liverpool fans must be feeling wistful and sad to see the likeable Sadio Mane go. What a signing he turned out to be. Surely one of the best in the club’s history.

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1 year

Why are the Premier League not adding on all the wasted time , as at World Cup ? If they did , players would quickly get the message that time wasting is …. er, a waste of time.

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5 months

Remember we were told how yellow cards would be issued if two or more players surrounded the referee to dispute a decision. How many of the 7 or 8 Man City players who crowded round Simon Hooper at the end of the Spurs game got booked ?

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4 years

VAR was introduced to correct MAJOR errors - not go over every goal with a fine tooth comb finding a reason to disallow it. Something has gone wrong.

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5 years

What sort of idiots would make a “plane gesture” towards Cardiff supporters ? Defies belief. Southampton should issue life bans.

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17 days

Just a little indicator of what life is like in the lower divisions. @thetimes ten pages of sport today failed to mention Portsmouth or Mansfield being promoted last night. I get it might not mean much in the wider scheme of things - but not even a few words ? Really ?

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3 years

No way should US team be rotating in World Cup qualifiers. Decide the best XI and stick to it. Treat every opponent with big respect. Not a time to take liberties.

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1 year

World Cup XI - Martinez Hakimi Stones Gvardiol Behich Amrabat Fernandez Messi McAllister Griezmann Mbappe. Yes that’s Aziz Behich of Dundee Utd and Australia. He was a revelation … and a big reason they defied the odds to make the last 16.

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11 months

Jose Mourinho says ref Anthony Taylor was “a disgrace”. No Jose , your Roma team were.

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1 year

Here’s the problem with believing “ assist” stats. In the World Cup, Griezmann got one for playing a ten yard backward pass for Tchouameni to score from 25 yards against England. Another thing - you could create 10 good chances but get 0 assists if they’re not converted .

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3 years

Sad to hear of the death of one of boxing’s true greats - Marvelous Marvin Hagler. Initially sidetracked and ignored , he carried a bitter but brilliant intensity in his long middleweight reign and his pulsating “war” with Tommy Hearns is the greatest fight I ever covered.

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3 years

Seriously , would any football lover on this planet mind if we never saw another of those hideous offside “lines” imposed on screen ? Just doesn’t feel right. If you can’t see it with naked eye , it’s level .

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1 year

That Dutch free kick is the most innovative since Zanetti’s brilliant 1998 goal for Argentina. against England. Cool and clever and what a time to unveil it !

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1 year

A final for the ages - and , on the day, the right winners. Argentina dominated that game for so long. Travesty had they lost it. Fancy getting a hat trick in the final and losing. Feel for Mbappe on that score. But Messi has given game so much he deserves this crowning moment.

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1 year

No question , USA by far better team in first half. England flat and sloppy. Feeling that US needed to turn this period on top into a lead. Have to reckon England will rethink and improve after break.

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1 year

I would not want to be Anthony Gordon whenever he next plays at Goodison. Talk about leaving a club under a cloud. He really has disrespected the club who taught him everything. Get a new advisor , Anthony.

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5 months

If you support a club outside the top two divisions, no point buying most national newspapers. 9 pages of sport in Daily Mail on Tuesday and not a line on the top-of-table L1 match between Portsmouth and Bolton , watched by nearly 20,000 and televised live. Pathetic.

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1 year

Looking ahead to Argentina game tonight , impossible to get that picture of their players gracelessly taunting defeated Dutch rivals out of my head. Makes them a hard team to like. Karma comes round. Well sometimes.

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1 year

USA getting a lesson in finishing. Also playing too slow tempo to make much happen going forward. Dutch happy to sit in, await errors and break. It’s working.

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5 years

Thank goodness FIFA have kept the next World Cup to 32 teams. They should forget 48 completely. It’s the World Cup , not a village tombola where everyone gets a go.

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3 years

Palace away is a very tough match for Liverpool , especially coming off a hard midweek game. They don’t look the same team on the road this season. Only one away win. Could be 1-1 as with Spurs game at Selhurst.

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1 year

Well that’s a fine mess US Soccer have on their hands. One from which no one emerges with much credit.

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2 years

You know the wonderful thing about football ? The happiness it can bring to people. You’d have to be hard-hearted ( or a supporter of a relegation rival ) not to be touched by the tears of joy and sheer relief of Everton fans.

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5 years

Alexis Sanchez is “ understood to regret signing for Man U rather than City”. Not as much as United must regret signing him perhaps.

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Sports Editors at most ( not all ) daily papers should hang heads in shame for pathetic , make that non-existent, coverage of Pompey v Derby, top two in League One and with far bigger fan bases than some of the Premier League teams they cover so religiously.

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3 years

How very sad to hear of the passing of my old ESPN colleague Paul Mariner. Such a superbly stylish England striker and very good bloke. He will be much missed.

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8 years

Delighted to sign a new deal to cover USA games for ESPN in America.

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1 year

Many say they don’t want VAR anymore. Fair enough. It’s a valid viewpoint. But if the title or relegation gets decided against your team on the final day by a blatantly offside goal missed by officials , do you shrug shoulders and say “that’s life “?

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6 years

We are lucky to be around in the same era as Ronaldo , Messi and Brett Pitman.

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1 year

Biggest issue for commentators on the World Cup Final. Danger of trying a bit too hard. Good luck to all my colleagues who have the honour of calling todays game.

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7 years

Celtic atmosphere deserves CL stage. Ncham looks a bargain at 4.5m. Griffiths movement clever. Sinclair revived in Glasgow.

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13 years

Messi might just be greatest player ever....certainly up there with pele, maradona and co ....just a pleasure to watch

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6 years

One thing I’ve learned on here tonight. Some people want to hammer England whatever they do. And seem to quite enjoy it.

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5 years

Son’s red card should be rescinded. It was a foul. No more. The injury was just a horrible accident with Gomes’ studs just stuck in turf. The injury was not a result of the challenge.

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6 years

Sending off Buffon is like shooting Bambi. Real got very lucky. Very soft pen. Michael Oliver is good ref but got that wrong. Big big call

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6 years

Pulisic to Liverpool stories seem to be gaining traction. Would be a good signing. Exciting talent.

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7 years

Don’t understand why Jack Wilshere omission by England is even a talking point. He’s left out every week by Arsenal.

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10 months

Never mind the wicket keeping , there is strong argument for Ben Foakes as a more reliable, orthodox batsman at No7.

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1 year

Quite bizarre. It’s like England are playing for a draw in the belief a point is fine in wider context of group. Dangerous game. USA playing very well.

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4 years

Martial had to go. But Lamela’s reaction as if shot was truly embarrasing and sums up much of what’s wrong in football. His play acting should not go unpunished. Horrendous to watch.

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2 years

Just watching back that Everton v Palace game. The Ayew challenge had to be a red card. Amazed VAR didn’t get involved. Clear case of “ excessive force endangering opponent “.

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3 years

Just before anyone starts a big inquest , England did not lose a single game in normal or extra time at Euro 2020. Next step is to add a tad more attacking zest.

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4 years

Coming to ESPN across America this June and July - every match live from the 2020 European Championship.

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