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Excuses in football are like ridiculous coloured boots and fake injuries – they get more and more heavily involved in the game as the years advance – but unlike the light-weight, luminous green footwear that is making the humble black boot a thing of the past, blaming victory on everything and everyone other than being bad at your job has been long associated with the beautiful game. Just ask Luca Vialli, who blamed his team’s loss once on hot weather, or Alan Pardew, who is pretty much the king of football excuses, regardless of the logic behind much of what he says.
