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Sat 11 Nov 2008Strange days have to be relished
SOCCER ANGLES:Hull's success, Delap's secret weapon, Spurs and Newcastle holding up the league, who would have thought it at the start of the season
"IT'S A STRANGE league this season, isn't it?" said the man on the end of the line. There was a tinge of anxiety to his tone. Not too much, it's just that to Premier League officials, the sight of a table where six points separates bottom-placed Tottenham Hotspur from seventh-placed Everton - in November - must shake a number of August's certainties. Reassurance was offered. We are all shaken, and yes it is strange. But it's good strange.
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