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Bury’s plight highlights game’s ills

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The LeaguePaper Team
11 August 2019

STRICTER REGULATIONS NEEDED

Gregor Robertson

IF 135-year-old Bury Football Club are expelled from the EFL or, heaven forbid, cease to exist, what do you imagine the reaction will be? Mourning? Outrage? Plenty of both, I would say. Then what? Would anything change? Would that tragedy finally shake the game from its stupor to make a concerted effort to improve regulations and better protect proud old clubs? If not, what on earth would it take? I love the Football League.
I played in all three of its divisions, for five clubs, for most of my 15-year career. Its depth and vibrancy, in my vie...

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