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Richard Jolly

Senior Football Correspondent@RichJolly

Richard Jolly is Senior Football Correspondent for The Independent, covering the Premier League, the Champions League and international football. Based in the north of England, he spent the previous 17 years contributing regularly to the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, FourFourTwo, ESPN, the Sunday Express, the Daily Mail, the National, the Straits Times and Eurosport, among others.

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