"I've got people in my mind who I want to bring to the football club, " he told BBC Radio Lancashire.

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In my twisted mind, these important statistics Ad Age felt the need to bring to light, made me think of how brands get diaper rash too.

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The pictures bring to mind the work of Steve Pyke, whose portraits World War I veterans first came to my attention back in the mid-1990s when they were on show at the old headquarters of the Royal Photographic Society in Bath.

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