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By Grey Whitebloom It can feel as though football’s governing body FIFA make the rules up as they go along. In 2017, Leicester City were denied the chance to sign Adrien Silva from Sporting CP because they missed the deadline by 14 seconds. Yet, Andrey Arshavin officially signed for Arsenal four days after the winter window closed in 2009 due to various layers of bureaucratic wrangling. While the deadline on deadline day is not always clear cut, the Premier League rarely fails to live up to its reputation as football’s ultimate soap opera, saving most of the drama for the final moments of the …

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