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You meet a range of people with different interests, but we always have that specialist subject, that we've absorbed like a sponge.

But Amorim had already developed a reputation as someone who absorbed information like a sponge, and as his playing career came to an end he turned his attention to coaching.

Balague added: "Amorim is like a sponge. After training and meetings, he likes to spend a couple of hours in his home office watching games, reading about football and managers, organising zooms with people he can learn new things from."

UC police are asking for pepper balls, sponge rounds, launchers, drones and other weapons in their annual requests.

While a marine ecologist for Fisheries and Oceans Canada told the newspaper it was not a sea sponge and contained no biological material.