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Book about Hearts initially exaggerated their goal tally (10)

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I believe the answer is:

scoresheet

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'initially exaggerated their goal tally' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'book about hearts' is the wordplay.
'book' becomes 'sheet' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'hearts' becomes 'cores' (core can mean the heart of something).
'sheet' enclosing 'cores' is 'SCORESHEET'.

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(Other definitions for scoresheet that I've seen before include "goal to get on this?" , "Record of players' performances" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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