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“has had to return home to visit his sick daughter”
What they really mean is he has done a Geordie Best and is on the rip with a 40 ouncer and a slapper or two and they are urgently trying to track him down.
Or maybe the CIA have him locked up at an undisclosed location in Europe
LOL what a thrashing those muppets took, christ i can’t get up off the floor, Hampshire only used 2 men