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As the January transfer window comes to a close and we enter the business end of the season let's take a whistle-stop tour through the Premier League's biggest clubs’ big-money moves in another thrilling transfer window. Manchester United signed 3 names this winter, the biggest of those being Wout Weghorst coming in on loan from recently relegated side Burnley. In an effort to keep the ball out of the back of the net they also bought in backup goalkeeper, Jack Butland from Stoke on loan. Marcel Sabitzer, a midfielder from Bayern Munich also signed which wraps up Manchester United’s Transfer Window.  On the blue side of Manchester, City only signed one player, Maximo Perrone, for a price of £8.4 million. City controversially got rid of Joao Cancelo (on loan to Bayern Munich with a £62 million end-of-season option-to-buy) after an argument between the player and manager, Pep Guardiola.  The Manchester club’s big rival and neighbour, Liverpool, also signed only 1 player; for £37 ...

In the Christmas holidays, I read The Dead Men Stood Together, Chris Priestley's retelling of the classical Coleridge poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.  For a conventional review see The Book Trust , but my blog piece is one of the Christmas Reading Challenge activities where we were asked to redesign the book cover in a way that showed our engagement with the themes in the book. At first, I wasn't sure what to draw, as the story is oddly paced and the events are confusing. The imagery is rich and I was overwhelmed with options! However, when I looked back I could identify the moment when the story changed drastically.  This key event was when the character's uncle shot the albatross in the eye. "Everything my uncle did seemed to have some effect."  After the death of the albatross, the boat becomes stuck fast in the ice before the sun comes out and saves them. However, the sun is too intense and the sailors become easily tired and grumpy. After this, more st...