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Cool Cole Palmer a breath of fresh air at Chelsea
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Chelsea midfielder Cole Palmer celebrating after scoring his team's second goal against Manchester United.
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Cole Palmer offers two exceptions to prove the rule. First, that someone amid Chelsea’s billion-pound blowout on transfers can spot a decent player. And, secondly, that judgment is not absolute at Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City.
Though perhaps the 21-year-old from Wythenshawe, on the fringes of the Manchester conurbation, is in the right place. His hat-trick on April 4 against Manchester United, the club he supported as a boy, took place amid anarchy, dividing two teams incapable of defending, where midfield was an apparition and 47 shots rained down on the goals.
