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Having to be smuggled away from the Falkirk Stadium was an unedifying end to the latest dreadful day for a man who seems to be caught in the wrong movie.

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“You have to confront your own feelings about motherhood, my own feelings about becoming a parent and Linda’s dreadful choices,” she says, laughing, her wry tone slipping in as it often does.

That pattern has resulted in Postecoglou enduring a dreadful run since his appointment on 9 September, with Saturday's loss to Sunderland in his first home game in charge their fifth game without a victory.

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Charities in Shropshire are urgently calling for benefit reforms, warning that working families could face a "dreadful" winter as food and energy bills continue to surge.

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The Dodgers have been rocked by the dreadful performance of their bullpen, so much so that a door that was once slammed shut is now wide open.

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