Football: Hacking Out Truth Amid Innuendo ; Radio Five Live's Voice of Sport

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No one should ever feel sorry for we football hacks, but this is a difficult month for us, I promise you. It's all to do with this pesky transfer window.

Rumours aren't just swirling around, they're smacking you in the face, demanding attention. The 24/7 maw of rolling news sucks in transfer rumours, chews them around, regurgitates them after an interval of time, then spews out another one. We seem to be spending all our time talking to agents, moles at the club, team-mates of the appropriate player, managers who have their own agenda - but rarely the player at the centre of the rumour. It's difficult to know where truth blurs into evasion or spinning a yarn.

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Football: Hacking Out Truth Amid Innuendo ; Radio Five Live's Voice of Sport

And we all feed off each other, sometimes unproductively so. At Norwich on Saturday, our ears pricked up at the news that the coveted striker Dean Ashton was out of the ...

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