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  1. EFL match ball

  2. EFL match ball

  3. National League football with 'HUFC' written on it being kicked by a white boot wearing a blue sock

  4. The inside of a derelict indoor market building. Damage to the ceiling is visible and greenery is growing out of the ground.

  5. Lisa has long blonde hair and is smiling at the camera in this head and shoulders image. She has a red top on.

  6. A young girl lies down on a green background with multi-coloured eggs dotted around her head. She has bunny ears on and whiskers painted on her face. She has a flowery dress on and long brown hair.

  7. The top of a ladder, with a white brick wall behind and someone standing at the top of them. The person is wearing black shoes and a blue set of trousers which can only be seen from below the knee.

  8. A red FA Cup patch being applied to a white Port Vale home shirt.

  9. From left to right: Middlesbrough boss Kim Hellberg, Ipswich forward Jack Clarke, Coventry manager Frank Lampard, Millwall winger Femi Azeez and Hull striker Oli McBurnie

  10. A man with ginger hair and wearing a suit, smiles while he stands outside. There are some trees behind him and a white and black hut to the left.

  11. Poet Steven Beattie stands by the side of the home dugout at Vale Park with the club badge showing on the side of the seat

  12. A man and a woman are standing alongside three ambulance crew members in uniform. They are standing by the side of an ambulance with West Midlands Ambulance Service livery.

  13. A two lane carriageway with a bridge in the distance and a large blue motorway sign on the left hand side and a number of cars on the road

  14. A wide photo of the M6 . On the right there are three lanes merging into two. small lorry with a flat bed is driving behind lines of traffic. A gantry overhead has blue signs reading "M6" and "M42". There is a sign for Birmingham airport on there.

  15. Poet Steven Beattie stands by the side of the home dugout at Vale Park with the club badge showing on the side of the seat

  16. A road with a double yellow line along the side of it. There is also a footpath running alongside and a grass verge along with a row of trees. There is a large truck heading towards the direction of the photographer.

  17. Boatman Drive in Etruria

  18. An elderly lady wearing a red jumper is holding a penguin. She is sitting in a pink chair with a tall back. Next to her is another woman, sitting in a similar chair which is green.

  19. Championship clubs spend more than £69m on agents fees

    Sindre Walle Egeli in an a blue Ipswich Town shirtGetty Images

    Ipswich signed Sindre Walle Egeli for a club record £17.5m in January

    Championship clubs spent just over £69.5m on agents fees over the past 12 months according to figures released by the Football Association, an increase of £6m on the previous year.

    The figures cover the period from February 2025 with Ipswich Town the top spenders, paying £11.7m having spent the first three months of the accounting period in the Premier League.

    Southampton (£8.3m) and Leicester (£5.8m), who were relegated alongside Ipswich are the second and third-highest payers on the list.

    Troubled Sheffield Wednesday were the most frugal when dealing with agents, spending £534,559.

    Wrexham come in sixth on the list with an outlay of £3.6m while current Championship leaders Coventry spent just short of £1.5m.

    Championship agents' fee spending

    • Ipswich - £11,738,920

    • Southampton - £8,381,358

    • Leicester City - £5,866,587

    • Sheffield United - £5,005,498

    • Norwich - £4,020,206

    • Wrexham - £3,660,584

    • Swansea - £3,088,645

    • Middlesbrough - £2,900,314

    • Bristol City - £2,774,990

    • Hull City - £2,450,431

    • Stoke City - £2,088,886

    • Birmingham City - £1,996,502

    • Millwall - £1,982,348

    • Preston North End - £1,831,233

    • QPR - £1,829,036

    • Watford - £1,612,833

    • Coventry - £1,497,990

    • Derby - £1,409,507

    • West Brom - £1,346,030

    • Oxford - £1,235,536

    • Charlton - £904,698

    • Portsmouth - £831,818

    • Blackburn - £676,980

    • Sheffield Wednesday - £534,559

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  20. A man wearing a navy blue T-shirt is smiling at the camera while leaning on a table. In front of him is a cocktail with a straw. There is ambient yellow lighting behind him.

  21. A woman wearing a blue scarf is standing in a sports hall with a blue wall. There are chairs and other people behind her. She is smiling for the photograph.
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