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πŸ… VAR: Mascots Olympics, Hagi wins it for Romania, Declan Rice's Bake Off fail

A review of the weekend's football good stuff you might have missed!

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Graham Ruthven
Nov 20, 2023
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What do mascots do when there’s no football?

Hold a Mascots Olympics, of course! That’s what happened on Saturday when 18 La Liga mascots gathered at Leganes to discover which mascot is the one mascot to rule them all!

The giant Leganes cucumber (πŸ₯’), the Valencia bat (πŸ¦‡), the Atletico Madrid raccoon (🦝), the Las Palmas canary bird (πŸ₯)… it was a fight …

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