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Latest news from Premier League opening weekend Get in touch! Share your thoughts in an email to JohnJonathan Wilson is writing from Old Trafford today but here’s his Sunday column on Jack Grealish, loaned to Everton, who we will see on Monday against Leeds.Looked at coldly, Grealish’s career has mapped an almost perfect arc. A kid shows talent, joins his local club, prospers, leaves them for a giant, wins trophies, has one outstanding season, and then, as he approaches 30, he drops down again joining another of England’s slumbering giants. How else should a career look? You would probably want that third phase to start two or three years later but that aside, this is pretty much the model. Had he stayed at Villa, there would have been corners of the internet mocking him for his lack of ambition and lack of medals, as happened with Harry Kane before he left Tottenham for Bayern. Continue reading...

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