Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty
(“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is
not a fault: it is often careful sourcing.
How these are measured.
🔮 Two shots at European Conference League play-offs - and the finance that would have come had they completed the task - were wasted in the most self-harming way. assertive
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To Celtic fans it might seem like sacrilege to doubt Martin O'Neill's capacity to get them through whatever it is they're going through right now - a slump or something deeper - but keeping the faith is surely becoming testing. assertive
🔮 There is an intriguing freshness to this and nowhere is that buzz more obvious than in the story of Ure, the boy who wanted to play for Rangers but couldn't force his way in, the young man who in his seven games for Sevilla since his move from IK Sirius in Sweden has already played against 12 of Spain's World Cup winning squad. assertive
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For 45 turgid minutes in Slovenia, some in the Tartan Army might have reimagined the Steve Clarke years as a time of plenty, the halcyon era of ambitious football when Scotland were an all-electric thrill-fest. assertive
🔮 You could have taken any 11 of them off their perch and put them in the North Macedonia starting line-up and they'd have posed Scotland more of a challenge than the beleaguered home team managed for most of this encounter. assertive
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On a dismal night at Hampden when Scotland failed to ask enough questions of Slovenia, there are one or two that could be posed to new boss Sebastien Pocognoli and his players. assertive
🔮 The question that Celtic fans will be asking now, some with pitchforks in hand, is what the hell happened in the last half-an-hour of this game. assertive
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