I don't know about that, Gus--you do see players act differently, and occasionally it reflects in what they do on the field. All of these guys are paid ungodly sums of money to run around in tight trousers, etc. But CP and the skins do sound different this year, even taking the usual amount of hype into account. (Or so it seems to me from my all-seeing vantage point at my computer!

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