The ones who got away: Sydney Roosters
We know that club loyalty isn’t what it used to be, and both the salary cap and the lure of the dollar means that…
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We know that club loyalty isn’t what it used to be, and both the salary cap and the lure of the dollar means that…
Phil Baraclough was one of the first people to be housed. The Guardian first met him in the summer of 2018, when he had moved into what he grumbled was a “grotty” first floor flat in Hulme, just outside Manchester city centre. It was his first permanent address since his girlfriend died eight and a half years earlier, triggering a downward spiral that led to him sleeping outside Manchester’s new Co-op building most nights. He was not in a brilliant way. His breathing was laboured, an after-effect of a bout of TB that had left him with one lung. He was quite clearly drinking heavily and ...