If he wanted to go, what stopped him?
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Also, hearing the Sevconians declare that he was not good enough after he turned them down was cringe fully funny.
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Best guess? He threw the toys out of the pram due to the hun PR factory motoring in to over drive which, if I remember rightly, was even more nauseating than usual. That and the extra cash he squeezed out of Milne.