In Italy, where I can slide my mortar and pestle across a counter, brace myself, and move it to the table, the only thing that ever fell on my foot was a full bottle of Barolo, and it was three in the morning, I had been working late, and the fig tart in the oven was about to burn.

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The Blues got their season up and running with a win against table topping Shrewsbury Town last weekend, Palmer scoring a brace in a man of the match performance.

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