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Let’s not go down the franchise sport route

by
The LeaguePaper Team
21 October 2018

Chris Dunlavy

A fresh take football
WEMBLEY is an awful place.
Sterile. Bland.
Corporate. Home of football? Hardly. It only opened in 2007. There’s more heritage in the O2 Arena.
It hogs England matches, depriving kids from Manchester, Newcastle or Nottingham of the chance to watch the national - yes, national - team play. Or forces their parents to shell out a few hundred quid on train tickets.
It has stolen FA Cup semi-finals from neutral venues like Old Trafford and Villa Park, leading to the kind of ludicrous situation that in 2016 saw fans of Everton and Man United travel 400 ...

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