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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Daniel Harris

Ashley Cole finally gets the chance to scratch his seven-year itch

Ashley Cole poses with a trophy at the London Football Awards earlier this month
Ashley Cole poses with a trophy at the London Football Awards earlier this month. Photograph: Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock for London Football Awards

A LONG TIME COMING

A Gold-Plate Generation full-back, taking a surprise appointment abroad, having never managed a club before; what could possibly go wrong? Must we really endure Jamie Carragher making hilarious sport of another inevitable failure every time he’s comprehensively defeated in an argument on Monday Night Football (MNF)? Er, no, because unlike Gary Neville, Ashley Cole hasn’t been presented with a job managing Cesena thanks to his friendship with a cuddly billionaire, able to fit the Valencia gig around his day-job of buying up swathes of his beloved Manchester for personal enrichment.

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