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So Duplantis is more than 20 centimetres ahead of the rest - and will fancy himself to set a new world record of 6.30m at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.

Leeds might fancy their chances at Craven Cottage but you only have to look at their respective squads to see the difference in quality between the two sides, player for player, including on the bench.

"At best that meant I would have needed to be put on dialysis which I really would not have fancied," he said.

My Big Prep Day always begins with a scribbled list — nothing fancy, just a notebook page split into columns.

Brown is a dogged researcher who grounds his every imaginative fancy in fact.