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In the run-up to Liverpool’s win over Tottenham on Saturday, Sky Sports broadcast some pre-match filler they’d recorded earlier in the week, in which Christian Eriksen and Ben Davies beat Harry Kane and Eric Dier in a round at their training ground’s putting green. While it was all just a bit of fun, Dier was clearly embarrassed to lip out while standing over a tiddler and his performance in the subsequent football match suggested that the golf course isn’t the only sporting arena in which he appears to have developed the yips. Of course it would be unfair to single out Dier, when so many of his team-mates played so poorly, putting in a collective performance that suggested the little trophy handed to Eriksen and Davies will be the only one presented to anyone in a Tottenham shirt this season.

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