Gate receipts necessarily shrink, the club's slice of the big TV pie is gone, and there are players to wean off Premier League salaries.

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The cooking is hearty fare: roast Patagonian lamb that slides off the bone, homemade pumpkin tart followed by apple pie.

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But this part of the pie is shrinking too: fiscal-austerity measures took 0.7% off output over the past year.

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If the foundation of a pie especially a custard pie like a pumpkin pie is too dry or too wet, it could crumble apart or slide off forks.

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He had not hidden him anywhere, and no faerie had made off with him, or used his parts in a spell, or put him in a pie to eat.

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