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Premier League holds TV power after bumper new deal but cracks are beginning to show

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It’s hard to know which had the better timing: the headline or the header. On the day after the Premier League announced a new £6.7bn domestic TV deal, Declan Rice showed why it’s so valuable with yet another stoppage-time winner.

Arsenal’s late 4-3 victory away at Luton Town was just the latest chaotically entertaining game in an absurdly frenetic month for the Premier League. That is summed up by how it was the fourth game in that period in which both teams had scored at least three goals.

If the Premier League’s promotional lines about offering the most unpredictability can often sound self-congratulatory and even isolationist for something so international, they’re a lot easier to . It all feels very much like it’s worth the fuss amid the

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